I have a handful of pre-1970 Monzon fights the earliest being his first fight with Selpa, a draw, in 1965.
Weakest class yet and thats saying something
How is going 50/50 "tearing through" "most" heavyweight contenders? And staying with a faded Louis and a guy who was at his best at 175 is not the...
There's an inconvenient truth for people here claiming that Walcott suddenly got better and more consistent in the mid 1940s after I pointed out...
Counterpunching opportunitities. I thought that would be self evident given the premise that Ali supposedly didnt fight counterpunchers... You...
I dont see someone as inconsistent as Walcott troubling Ali, especially someone as inconsistent and unwilling to engage. Walcott looked for...
Duran wasn’t lackluster against Benitez. If you watch that fight pay close attention to how brilliantly Benitez took away Durans right hand, his...
I have footage of his third fight with Ritter and his fight with Van Dam.
Ali was fat, out of shape, and hadnt trained because he knew Wepner was a pushover. He still won handily and stopped Wepner. Everyone knows it...
I seem to recall a story about Whitey Bimstein (I think) cutting Graziano’s (I think) eye with a quarter and one of them kept the quarter as a...
I dont know that I would call this a big win. Wepner was terrible and is only remembered today because he was Liston's last fight and because he...
All of this is on film, shown on TV at the time.
Here is the article I wrote on the Burns-Johnson film: https://flic.kr/p/2poXRWE https://flic.kr/p/2poXRYi https://flic.kr/p/2poT9pW...
Certainly it would stack up against the "greats" of the modern era. I would also add that beating Leo Houck 3x that year is a better notch on the...
I have the entire theatrical film of Johnson-Jeffries. It includes the entire fight, all rounds, and with all of the prefight training, prefight...
