70s Ali jab and grab style, fighting tall on the back foot, taking rounds off, was all pretty en vogue with the 80s heavyweights. but...
Rewatching the PPV lead in now. Biggs was #1 contender (hype rating on par with Whyte), the arena was sold out. Barry Thompkins, after saying a...
Bookies are hype proof. If I recall correctly, several of the HBO announcers and other members of the press favored Biggs but maybe im...
i don't think there was that much hype around Whyte. saw almost no one pick him to win. i think even his most ardent supporters tempered their...
Shorter thread to just list the fighters that are really great guys
Holmes- Norton Frazier - Ali 1 Liakhovich - Brewster Bowe-Holyfield 1 Mercer - Cooper Holyfield - Tyson 1 Ibeabuchi - Tua Jefferson - Harris...
McCall had serious mental illness. Ibeabuchi cried during ringwalks sometimes. Tears are different than "being a crybaby." Plenty of crybabies in...
By your parameters, Brewster. But if they fought 3 fights I could see Sultan winning 2.
Big fan of that KO too. You must be a fan of the lead uppercut. Foreman vs Cooney's got a very similar swagger as JJW's KO of Charles
yeah i mean i'm definitely going out on a limb here. one thing Iran isn't gonna do is go out there in the wrong stance for the first 4 rounds. and...
Oh you're right I was conflating 2 tragedies
boxing is the most tragic sport. traditionally boxers had awful lives before boxing, and for most of them their lives didn't improve very much....
Ohhh my bad I read it as SRL Honestly a big physical clubber like Barkley isn't the worst of that batch for a declining Robinson
I've always maintained that Iran Barkley had the kryptonite for ray Leonard. I have absolutely no evidence to support this but I think he at least...
the whole stretch from Berbick until losing in Tokyo is just very impressive. i've been known to be critical of Tyson, but none of those guys were...
