Amen.
If Manny fights a retread like Cotto or Mosley, he would disappoint the whole boxing world. If Manny A. Faces and defeats Floyd or B. Drops...
I strongly suspect that Maravilla is the reincarnation of "The Boxing Marvel" Jack Britton. Think about it. Sergio is a natural fighter, stylist,...
"John Garfield" is the closest thing to John Garfield that any of us will ever know. He's damn near as cool.
Pacquiao is, as far as I'm concerned, a natural super-feather. No smaller man is going to beat Duran -particularly the beast that went to Canada....
Mine is too --if he does it right and listens to the ghost of Jack Britton. For more on that:...
I'm happy that you didn't. The "Boston Terror" is far more befitting as a nickname for Langford in my opinion. I own your book and thought it...
Cox's decision to use "Boston Terror" instead of "Boston Tar Baby" is appreciated. "Tar baby" was a venomous racial slur that was thrown around in...
The artifical Hands of Stone has advantages in size, strength, and motivation. All that is cancelled out because his style is all wrong....
...a few with me, janitor. And they always ended very well; I still fondly recall accidentally raising an analogy about paleontolgoists (?) and...
It's called The Gods of War: Boxing Essays and is a collection I've written that includes the series I put up on this site early this year as well...
It was submitted to the big publishing house of Farrer, Straus and Giroux out of New York. North Point Press is one of their imprints. If you own...
...This is one of the best threads I've ever seen on this forum. Great argument, great historical knowledge, great analysis. McGrain lit the fuse...
And I'd agree with you and Bodhi that almost all of the lists on this forum are respectable.
Out in the real world any 4 of those 5 guys would lucky to make the top 20. Otherwise, I'd argue -strenuously- that some lists are better than...
