A motivated Bruce Seldon would have had potential but there was never such a thing. There was a motivated Buster Douglas, if only for a single night.
You can criticize Johnson for fighting smaller heavyweights but you have to take into account that Johnson was never the biggest heavyweight...
I don't think I've seen a fight comparable to Nelson-Wolgast. 40 rounds of battle and they actually keep up a high pace throughout the fight....
You have to admit that Leonard would have found it very tough to win a 15 round fight even against that version of Marvin Hagler.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9_5F4_Gpgs This fight is the closest you will get to a heavyweight version of Ray Leonard-Davey Boy Green.
He was KO'd in 9 of his following 10 fights and ridiculed by the media as arguably the biggest hypejob of all time up to that point, only due to...
He was a rough and tough customer. Obviously nowadays no one will impressed by his skills aside from the fact that he was about the only fighter...
Ketchel could boast knocking him flat at the bell and then finishing him off in three during their rematch though. I don't criticize Burns for...
Jack Johnson could fight and orchestrate a jazz band: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5ntK49v_5g If only all footage of him was as good in...
The great middleweight Tommy Ryan was Jim Flynn's trainer for this fight but he ended up being disgusted at Flynn who felt he could win the title...
He looked pretty good against Flynn I thought. The fight lacked a decisive end though because of Flynn's ridiculous fouling. In their first fight...
Steward made McCall practice throwing that counter right hand a thousand times until he would throw it automatically while having the opportunity....
KO15 Jeffries Title win over Burns KO11 Flynn PTS15 Langford PTS20 McVea
I believe O'Brien liked to confuse people by claiming that about all his fights were fixed. He definitely caught a beating here though. Langford...
I agree with this. That's what both men said during the post-fight interview also. The result was a somewhat awkward fight considering the...
