It should be read with a grain of salt then. I'm sure there were payoffs, but when a person, either a writer or fan, starts mentioning names, he...
Along this same line, I think of Joey Maxim's inside game. Not a great punisher, but as you describe Angott, a spoiler of other fighters' inside game.
So what source does the author cite to back up his implication about Red Smith?
Thanks, Seamus. Those were the eras (1915-1970) that held my interest for all my life. I threw everything I knew into those books. I'm no...
I think what he did on the way up and in his early championship years was very, very impressive -- Pinklon, Tucker, Smith, Biggs, Holmes, Tubbs,...
I think the surprise factor of Ingo being an unknown quantity to both Machen and Patterson played a large part in Ingo's success against each of...
Eddie Cotton v. Jose Torres Jock Malone v. Maxie Rosenbloom Randy Sandy v. Emile Griffith
I don't know if Robinson ever took a really hard punch, so maybe we'll never know if he could take it. As far as I know, nobody ever hit him...
Now there's so many former champs that in some cases the introductions would take as long as the average fight.
And for Denny Moyer-Giambra in Portland, OR, though he didn't have a say in scoring the bout.
Archie Moore-Bivins, Moore-Jack Chase (6), Moore-Harold Johnson, Moore-Howard King (6), Charles-Maxim. If you include four or more the list could...
Man, you're a tough case!
Nino got within a whisker of a title shot, Moore's whiskers that is!
I regard his greatness fully established during his "first career." I believe he was a better fighter then than when he returned. His "second...
Great article!
