The first time I ever heard that term applied to a fight was magazine coverage of Ron Lyle vs. Joe Bugner. Carl Williams - Bert Cooper How...
Larry Holmes - Ossie Ocasio was the first one I thought of.
Great idea for a thread. Interestingly, I think LeDoux was supposed to fight Jimmy Young this night, but Young pulled out with an injury.
He never had a chance to turn pro, but I remember Lemuel Steeples being a hot prospect when amateur boxing used to be televised regularly. He was...
I recently re-watched Foreman's Jimmy Young fight and was appalled at how bad George looked. He just couldn't pull the trigger, except for round...
1. Deontay Wilder 2. Tommy Morrison 3. Michael Grant 4. Shannon Briggs
Considering that Joe beat the winner and runner-up, I don't think he'd have a problem. Other fighters around the rankings at the time the...
Who knows? He must've had good management who talked him up to Johnny Ort at the Ring. The only guy he "beat" of note is LeDoux, and that was...
Ellis had a rotten 1969, then. I know about the cancelled fights with Henry Cooper and Gregorio Peralta. Didn't know about a Cleroux shot. But...
Not top-10s, but I'll add 3/9/80...... Marty Monroe.......... #14........... W 10.............. #11 Dino Denis was ranked #13 by World Boxing,...
How many of these mistakes are auto-correct? I did a post a few weeks ago about Carlos Zarate and auto-correct changed it to Carlos Karate and I...
By the time Martin-Mildenberger happened they'd both been eliminated and the final of Ellis-Quarry was scheduled for three weeks later.
Thanks! I guess I could've done that myself, but I appreciate it.
I don't know... most champions fight twice a year these days. And many times in the last 20 years someone has held at least two belts, so that...
If you'd like. They were mostly rhetorical questions designed to get people thinking about the wide range of options there are when collecting...
