John Tate, prior to the Weaver fight, takes it fairly easily. After the Weaver fight, if Morrison's on his game he wins. At his very best, Tommy...
I too doubt that there was any real effort toward putting together a Frazier-Liston bout. Right before the Wepner bout Liston half-heartedly, IMO,...
I'm reading the September 1969 issue of The Ring and reports of the Frazier-Quarry fight. In it, Angelo Dundee says, "We'll sign to fight Frazier...
Does Sonny Liston count? Going into Ali I, it was thought he'd steamroll Ali/Clay. Now some look at Sonny as having been an old man ready to be...
What are some fights where we didn't know a fighter was "shot" going in, but hindsight tells us now that they were? I'm thinking of fights where...
I think it depends on where Leon's head is going into the fight. If he's in the frame of mind he was going in to Ali 1, Mercado, or Evangelista,...
My first TV fight was at age 7, nearly 8 - Muhammad Ali vs. Ron Lyle. There was a lot of hype about it at the time because this was the first...
In retrospect, yeah. But at the time I recall it was viewed as a coming out party for Wilfred at middleweight and a stepping stone for a...
There was talk of a Foreman - Norton rematch. Not in 74, but a couple years later in '76 and '77. Norton wanted it.
His potential? In his early days, as I recall, he wasn't seen as a budding superstar like Michael Olajide or slightly later Michael Nunn were. He...
Joe Louis fought every man who held the heavyweight championship (other than himself) from 1930 to 1955. He also fought BBBC world titleholder Lee...
In mid-November 1970 there was talk that a fight between Liston and Chuvalo was on tap for February 1971. Fate had other plans, unfortunately.
Stan Ward likely had too much going for him to end up homeless. Wasn't he a high school teacher? There was a recent video posted somewhere where...
Though he was young and untested, Michael Moorer looked like a lethal beast at light-heavyweight. While he managed to win the biggest prize of all...
True. It happens in other fields, too. I once worked in a drug store and waited on someone claiming to be country singer / guitarist Merle Travis....
