Rumsfeld--"I'm curious if you could elaborate on Turkey Thompson." Well, I think your system here doesn't underrate him, but puts him at about...
Fair enough on Lesnevich. It is just as easy to see him as overrated as underrated. I'm certain he will finish very high in Rummy's light-heavy...
There is so often threads on black versus white fighters during the color line era that it is interesting to note the highest rated black...
First--thank you very much for putting this together and sharing it with us. Comments-- 1--one thing which jumps out at me is that Sam Langford...
heavyweight--Harry Wills light-heavyweight--Gus Lesnevich middleweight--Teddy Yarosz welterweight--Del Flanagan lightweight--Joe Brown...
As warned, more comments 1940's--most overrated--Tami Mauriello. As mentioned in another post, the war produced distortions and logically must...
Fabulous post and research. And of course extremely interesting and provocative. What I noticed on a quick rundown- 1--the volatility of the...
"none of those birds could have beaten Patterson" Johansson? "Shavers" Ron Stander stopped him and also beat Thad Spencer. "he only lost to...
"neither Johansson, nor Patterson were ranked when they fought Cooper" So. Johansson was ranked #7 in the 1956 yearly rankings and had a fight...
"Jerry knocked him cold when he was 18" Was that in the amateurs? Just curious. But Ramos probably did not have the background Quarry had. He...
"Some say it was the luckiest punch(es) landed in the modern day of the sport." But what did their seeing eye dogs say? "Checkmate" Oh, come...
I think Joe Louis should rate #1 on this list. He fought more good punchers over a longer period than anyone else. Interesting to me that he is...
I think Cobb and Chuvalo were the types Baer feasted on. They both were tough enough to possibly go ten, but I think Baer would end up with the...
"The WBA stripping Ali" One thing I must say. This is a case in which one must separate the gravy from the meat and potatoes. One doesn't see...
klompton2 I don't know what exactly happened, but on the above, hit expand and you will get my response concerning Napoles and Papp. The bottom...
