I doubt it was much outside the norm for Don King (since you blame King for Bean's ranking), whose relationship with Sulaiman and the WBC was not...
Tyrelk Biggs was stopped in the 7th round but it is probably true that Tyson could have got it done sooner but opted to 'punish' Biggs instead....
The strangest ranking around that time was probably Golota being put at #1 by the WBC to challenge Lewis in 1997. Talk about unqualified. Coming...
So what? That's professional boxing. And a week after Holyfield defended against Bean, Lennox Lewis faced Zelkjo Mavrovic, who was similarly...
Mike Tyson was mandatory challenger in 1991, but pulled out. Riddick Bowe was mandatory challenger in 1992. Holyfield fought him. Michael Moorer...
Mike Tyson failed miserably to meet expectations to defend against Holyfield which was agreed and signed for June 1990, by getting himself knocked...
Holyfield's fight with Akinwande was cancelled at the last minute. Again, not Holyfield's fault, not Holyfield's injury/illness. I've never before...
Bert Cooper was a substitute for Francesco Damiani, who was a replacement for Mike Tyson. Tyson pulled out from scheduled November 8 fight about...
No. Not even slightly. She's not beating any male professional champion. And no she's not even fast by male boxing standards. She's the equivalent...
Her limit would be 6-round sub-journeyman level part-time pro boxers, about eight modern weight classes below her. A featherweight with a 3-9 (0...
If this fight happened a year ago or two years ago or three, it wouldn't have been memorable enough to remember even now - and if you told me the...
I'm the same age. He was a good 15 round fighter. Pedroza was a great performance. I don't think he would have beat Azumah Nelson, I don't think...
When did Dubois start working with Charles anyway? Wasn't he being trained by Martin Bowers before? And Tibbs? And McGuigan at one point?
I'd love to see Prince Patel knock him out.
They'd be calling him Jake The Muss if he took this fight.
