Why couldn't he beat little Jimmy Young to a pulp? What if the fight goes past 5 and Vitali is still there? People like to criticize Vitali's...
People seem willing to give Holmes a pass for never unifying and beating his co champions on the grounds that he was better and would have beaten...
There is no logic in Holmes becoming champ by beating a retired former champion who was no longer recognized as the reigning champion and who to...
Ali was a retired former champion attempting a comeback when he faced Holmes not a reigning champion so that wouldn't give Holmes lineal status....
Holmes lineal status is based on the general perception that he was the best for several years but he never unified and wasn't willing to face his...
Much of that has little bearing on lineal status. Ali did officially retire and at the time he fought Holmes would have lost to plenty of guys....
Holmes is not universally considered lineal because he didn't unify and Ali was retired at the time he came back to face Holmes. When Ali fought...
He'd already beaten Summerlin by that stage a guy who was a pretty solid fighter. And beating Marshall via such decisive means is a good result....
What do you think? Marciano has often been defended on the grounds he beat the best competition available during his era but I suspect Liston...
I haven't been able to locate more than a few cruiserweight rehydration weights. Riakpore and Okolie are the only top cruiserweights at present...
What bearing does a Fury fight have on a Liston fight though? I should think guys like Breidis and Gassiev are more similar to Liston than Fury....
There are plenty of examples from lower weight divisions of guys rehydrating up to 20 pounds. But there seems to be very little data regarding...
Disagree. A lot of top 10 heavies are not willing to take risky fights unless there is a massive amount of money involved. If your not a big...
If Usyk turned pro and immediately beat Alexander Povetkin, Anthony Joshua, Deontay Wilder, and Luis Ortiz all in the space of a year without...
Louis was widely considered the best heavyweight in the world going into the Schmelling fight and had annihilated Carnera and Baer the prior year...
