So true! Imagine if we time-machined these two masters 110 years forward - they would make today's best featherweights/lightweights look like...
Jeffries vs Finnegan
Along with Saoul Mamby, Jack Johnson, Kid Azteca and Barney Malone.
For best recuperative powers, I'd like to nominate Joe Grim.
Yes, it works just fine! Unfortunately a couple of the records aren't totally correct. Buck Smith and Young Griffo both had longer unbeaten...
LOL... of course not! You have the right to think what you do - just as I have the right to think what I do.
This is not a "greatest" thread. It's not about who had the the greatest BW resume - it's about how Inoue would have done against other great BWs....
I don't understand this talk, about how difficult it is to rank Inoue at BW - due to his short time and few fights in this division! In the old...
That's an awful long list, 22 names - but on closer inspection the following are not HOFers: Gunboat McTigue Brennan Meehan McGoorty Wilson So...
Ok, if you want to include HOFers from the "non participant" category, then Greb (Jack Blackburn) and McLarnin (Ruby Goldstein) both have 16. 6...
If we only count HOFers in the boxer category, then Greb, McLarnin and Moore each met 15.
Without cheating, I can probably name about a dozen boxers from more than 50 years ago, like... Rocky Marciano Joe Louis Sugar Ray Robinson...
Can't believe I missed Ruiz as a direct connection between Jones and Valuev - but well done!
Thanks, he certainly was! Somehow I overlooked him - but will now add him to the list of the other 14.
The Hogue twins, Shorty and Big Boy, shared an amazing 15 opponents: Archie Moore Johnny "Bandit" Romero Eddie Booker Bobby Birch Bobby Pacho...
