Dempsey never took the kind of punishment in his entire career EVER that Ali would have consistently dished out. In Dempsey's era half the...
Ali was 6’3”, 214 pounds, blazing fast of both hand and foot. Underrated power and incredibly tough both mentally and physically. Dempsey spent...
No they are both pretty common
All three Griffith-Benvenuti fights exist complete.
Fullmer was no puncher.
Its asinine to think promoters back then had enough money to go paying off every newspaper reporter in every town a fighter fought as often as...
“Rear uppercut” is that another made up thing like the “philly shell” that dumbass hipsters have come up with to pretend there is some archaic...
At MW this is a tougher fight for Toney than some are making it. He wasnt exactly consistent either and if he fought off the ropes like he...
Most of those guys would not only survive but would likely stop Shavers well before he could land that punch. Who did Shavers ever beat that was...
I would recommend watching and or listening to the fights before conjuring up out of thin air the idea that they were fixed. Pep tried his hardest...
why?
Ortiz-Loi 2 and 3 were robberies as were the two Loi-Perkins fights that Perkins didnt win.
The world was a different place between 1978 and 1939. Comparing how ratings worked in those two eras is like comparing apples and oranges....
They are an opinion and using the annual rating is nothing more than a snapshot of an unofficial opinion at the very end of the year. They are...
From Ring magazine, which were unofficial and had no bearing on who actually got a title shot.
