Said the guy using a fight that took place two years after the Jones fight to illustrate how good Hopkins was when he fought Jones. And that fight...
Because those ratings dictated who got title shots and who got stripped, barred, banned, etc. they were the official ratings due to the voluntary...
Theres a massive glaring problem with just looking at these ratings with no context: Despite being rated briefly at #1 Graziano had never fought...
Give Joe the steroids Holyfield was using and youd see a different fighter as well.
Moorer would get stopped by both by round 7.
Its not an amateur fight and Im not even convinced Ellis really worked enough to offset the damage Patterson was doing. Patterson won that fight.
Zale was a dead man walking in this fight. Totally shot. His fights with Graziano, while exciting, should not have been that competitive. Zale is...
I dont think so. Benitez did the same thing to Cervantes at 140 and Duran wanted no part him. A guy like Duran was exactly what Benitez loved....
Benitez would have always beaten Duran at any weight just because of his style. Watch how he completely takes away Durans right hand. Thats not...
At the weigh in for Rondon during the interview he says he has to drink beer to keep his weight up.
He was bulkier but shorter. Pretty much everybody Foster fought was “bulkier” than him even at or below 175 pounds. Jones was only a HW because he...
Jones had fought most of his career at, below, or just above 175 prior to Foster. Only five months earlier he had fought Harold Johnson for the...
Too late. Patterson was robbed. Jimmy should get no credit for that "victory".
Foster was not 0-8 against HWs.
I think Bonavena was very unfortunate to fight in the same era as Ali and Frazier and share his prime with them. Id probably rate him a bit higher...
