True, per The Ring anyways - The Ring - May 1985 (as of March 14, 1985) Heavyweight World Champion: Larry Holmes (IBF) 1. Pinklon Thomas...
Ray, in shape could be as tough as they come. But he should have never lost to Holmes (arguable - Larry fought a great fight) and Ferguson.
I seem to remember reading that he felt weak at 235 and elected to carry more weight from then on. In mrkoolkevin's clips George is thin enough...
Regarding the ranking of Holmes' title opponents, here's something I posted in 2008: Here's a look at Larry Holmes' opponents' Ring's Ratings...
The Ring - July 1982. Ratings compiled pre- Holmes-C00ney fight and card. World Champion: Larry Holmes 1. Mike Weaver 2. Michael Dokes 3. Gerry...
Merritt reached official contender status, at around number 10 give-or-take, with his September 73 destruction of Ernie Terrell and held that...
It's been pretty well covered in previous posts why Ali was considered past it when he fought Foreman. I'll just add that, prior to the nineties,...
I'm not going to go anywhere near claiming this is any kind of Best song about boxing, but here's something I wrote and recorded after watching...
Nat might have seen Ali at his physical best in the sixties, but by 1972 the only time Ali was faced with an opponent giving him all he could...
I was thinking the same thing. "Down goes Ellis! Down goes Ellis!" really sticks in my memory.
As I understand it, he was caught falsifying records (or, more accurately, the information contained within records) over at Boxrec. He surely had...
As I understand it, that one was proven false; merely a story planted in the press.
Norton would've been highly motivated in early '78. The Holmes and Shavers fights took the wind out of Norton's sails, which I believe accounts...
It was SUPPOSED to happen in March 1979, but Ossie Ocasio spoiled things. If Young would've won the January '79 Ocasio rematch he'd have gotten...
I was thinking it was a segment, not USA Tuesday Night Fights itself. I remember them taking short looks, like less than five minutes, on a...
