I remember Nat recalling telling Walcott that more then ten seconds had elapsed in a Ring article in the late sixties. I searched from any at the...
In my opinion there wasn't a fix and Walcott acted incompetently as a referee. Everything he did showed a man who despite being a top boxer had...
This is a interesting post question! Robinson, Charles, Armstrong, and Greb all would be candidates for the #1 placement.
Walcott didn't wave it off right away, Sonny was up and in the fight again until Joe went by Nat's insistence the bout was over. It may have...
It was an anchor punch, one I was taught early, and Liston came into it but it simply had nothing on it at all, nothing. Sonny reached a prime...
I read the transcripts of his crime at the time and they were very disturbing, enough so that I question whether he ever would not be a threat to...
Oh, sorry! Hahahaha, I should have read between the lines, and I agree with you!
This post brings to my memory two sad endings of two fighters who grew old in the ring with the same result, Mando Ramos stretched over the top...
The three best with right uppercuts I saw at heavyweight was a primed Foreman, Tyson, and Earnie Shavers. Others like Louis threw it by the book...
You are so on the mark about Rossman at his best like the Galendez and third Mike Quarry bouts. Text book placement of his hands for catching and...
If you can find it Benny Leonard's How to box from the 1940's is an excellent source on the right hand placement, blocking, catching, and...
Can any of you remember who Leon's manager and trainer was? I remember for the second Ali go a former middleweight whose name escapes me was...
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John was highly skilled but if Roy employed a jab, something he often didn't do, I think his speed would have kept John just shy of scoring enough...
There have been a few top fighters of late who used the weight on the back foot style the most noteworthy being John Conteh. The reason its not...
