I like Golovkin to stop him. His fundamentals and power would serve him well in this one.
At his 160lb best, Toney would rightly be a heavy favorite here.
My list would mainly consist of masterclasses in boxing skill and technique (like Mayweather-Canelo and Camacho-Ramirez). They wouldn't need to...
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Another sportswriter, Nick Gholson, who watched it live, scored it 8-6-1 Duran.
Floyd, and it would be surprisingly decisive.
What time is it?
Dick Young and Tom Cushman were two of the people I had in mind. Both mentioned it in columns they wrote days after the fight. And Young claimed...
I've come across a bunch of writers who scored the fight for Leonard in real time, but I haven't seen any actual poll.
If you aspire to do your own historical research and not just rely on the conclusions of others, newspapers.com is pretty much a necessity IMO.
If anything, people have always underestimated his defensive abilities (and all-around boxing skills).
Proposed amendment to the original thread: "How many of the men who Holyfield beat in 1987 would have beaten Jim Corbett?"
Not sure if I've said this already but: In this forum, "strength" is probably the most overrated, and most poorly measured, attribute in boxing....
I don't know anything about AI. Would you mind explaining exactly why you believe that we'll "have a strong enough AI to predict fights with...
Could exist.
