Possibly part of the reason Weaver held his title for 2.5 years was that he was a very inactive champion.
41 years! That's crazy. It doesn't seem like YESTERDAY necessarily, but it does seem like 10 or 15 years ago in my mind. I remember being...
I once dated a woman who wasn't at all a boxing fan. She pretty much didn't know anything about boxing. But she tolerated watching the Lennox...
At least Damiani still had his pants on.
Regarding Zarata-Zamora, neither man's title was on the line, nor was it on a major U.S. tv network. With that in mind, it's amazing the fight was...
By all accounts he was a true gentleman, on top of everything else. I met him briefly in 1984 in Eureka, CA when he brought his amateur boxing...
Speaking of Jerry Quarry ^... Quarry getting himself fired from a good commentating gig with CBS by fighting Lorenzo Zanon on ABC. Quarry didn't...
I don't have very many sets of monthly / quarterly ratings from this period, but I can tell you that Uzcudun was rated by the NBA in September...
MAPS - which, as I understand it, Ali had nothing to do with save for letting Ross 'Harold Smith' Fields use his name - was putting together some...
1) Ali was last "the best" going in to the Jimmy Young fight. He'd beaten Frazier, Foreman had just gone life and death with Lyle, and there were...
I think Patterson has a real good shot vs. Liston circa 68-70. Patterson would be too much for Martin. I'm a bit surprised at Martin's rise to...
When I was a kid I thought Greg Page had the tools to be an ATG. As an adult I'm more cynical... or something. But I did buy into the Michael...
I don't recall if I watched it, but when I was almost 8 the Ali-Lyle fight was broadcast live in prime time on ABC here in the states. It was the...
^ Interesting. So we'd be looking at the pro debut version of Foreman against Berbick and six years past McBride version of Tyson against Moorer.
Thing is, Quarry was on a roll going into the second Frazier fight. He'd had a great 1973 and was being considered for a title shot at Foreman...
