I agree Foreman's power had diminished- my point was that no one says "Foreman doesn't count as a puncher" when, say, he's mentioned as an...
:huh Um, aren't you contradicting what you just said and used as the topic of this thread?
Had old Foreman lost his power in his second career? He had a very low knockout percentage against name opponents (Stewart, Schulz, Cooney,...
Well, Johnson was less than two months off his loss in an epic to Moore, and probably shouldn't have been getting in with a fairly tough opponent...
That isn't a direct same-opponent comparison like Dempsey's. It's an opponent-of-an-opponent. Not only is the concept not always an accurate...
Marciano KO 3 Frazier KO 6 Ali SD Foreman KO 5 Holmes UD Norton UD Walcott SD Louis KO 2
:barf How I had hoped never to see such Revolver-spawned idiocy grace the pages of this forum again.
I've never really criticized Tunney for not facing "BIG" heavyweights, personally. Still, I suppose it does leave a bit of a question mark over...
It's sad, watching him drag on this way.
This is a tough pick. In the end, I don't think Dempsey had quite the indomitably effective offense/defense combination going all the time that...
I like Marciano by close, bruising decision. Jeffries was taller and rangier, but he wasn't an "outside" fighter. He didn't control the tempo and...
Absolutely. Keene Simmons (who both fought and sparred with Marciano) and Roland LaStarza also spoke to this effect. Simmons said that "When...
I see some of your points about Holmes' non-rematches. I concede Holmes is marginally worse in this matter than Lewis. On Byrd, it is true that...
This is getting rather convoluted... Let me show how I would compare these guys' legacies: I generally assess fighters on a combination of their...
Yes, but aside from Witherspoon (I admit Holmes should've rematched him), Holmes' non-rematches are equally understandable. Norton dropped...
