Patterson was hard to defeat. His opponents had to crawl around on the canvas to find him.
Conditioning. Marciano could have gone 40 rounds if he needed to.
How about he was losing his hair? There are probably 1000 different characteristics that can be pinned on him or anyone else.
Along the same line- Do fighters still wear robes into the ring? I don't watch fights anymore, so don't know.
Hitting after the bell. Hitting on the break.
I don't know if it's true or not, but I don't dismiss it out-of-hand. It would have been very easy to have done. Foreman claims his trainer Dick...
Foreman's current take would probably vary day by day, depending on who he is talking to. Since he became a big money businessman, he wants to...
Ali-Norton III Ali-Young Ali was unbeatable in those fights. I'd rather not say why, but he was unbeatable.
You're right. "Liston was a bully" is a talking point that keeps getting regurgitated. It has no meaning. I've yet to see anyone define what they...
Young- Ali then Young- Norton Sent Young in a downward spiral he never recovered from.
Sonny Liston. He'd be in everyone's top 3 if it weren't for the Clay fights- both of which had an odor to them.
"... this week Angelo Dundee, Clay's legendary trainer, finally dismissed that theory. Dundee, 82, revealed: 'People said Liston put liniment on...
Walcott knew better regardless of what Fleischer said. Fleischer was nothing but a ringside spectator. He didn't have the authority to instruct...
Liston got up exactly when he was supposed to- when Ali finally went to a neutral corner. Liston was not counted out. He was up within a couple...
First fight may have been fixed. Second fight was definitely a fix. Joe Walcott was part of the fix.
