Marciano had a tryout with a Chicago Cubs farm team in 1947. He was cut after a couple of weeks. He was a good hitter but he was slow and couldn't...
He tried out for a pro team and was cut after 10 days or so. He could hit, but he was too slow at everything else.
How would some of the ATGs have done at other sports? Ali? Football maybe? QB? WR? Half back? Liston? Football? Lineman? Marciano? I think...
I don't think Marciano retired because he knew it was physically time to go. He left because: 1. He had grown to hate Al Weill. He was...
Patterson wouldn't have fought Marciano. He would have waited until he retired. D'Amato had already said that. Marciano would have beaten...
How does boxrec record Ali-Liston II? Do they show it a KO? Liston was not counted out. I assume it goes down as the referee called it- right or...
I don't know, but it isn't a KO unless a fighter is down for the count of 10. If a fight is stopped due to injury or a fighter being unable to...
That would be a TKO if the fighter had beaten the count. This fight went down as a KO.
Foreman denies the "I was drugged" story, then he repeats it. He restated it in his 2007 book and has stated it even after that. It all depends...
The count doesn't begin until the fighter scoring the knock down is in the farthest neutral corner. Period. Once the fighter is in the neutral...
Foreman says that Ali repeatedly refused a rematch unless Foreman hired Dick Saddler as his trainer for the match. Saddler is the trainer Foreman...
Liston got up before the count began.
Foreman never contested the count. He has always claimed he was drugged by his trainer.
I remember when the HW Champion was the premier sports figure in the US. He was bigger than Babe Ruth, Ben Hogan, Ted Williams or anyone else you...
1960s. Clay/Ali turned boxing into a sideshow. His antics pulled it down to the level of pro wrestling. Imagine Joe Louis or Marciano prancing...
