I dont doubt that in the hyperbole sorrounding his victory over Johnson that there were a lot of stories told about how amazing Willard was at...
Im calling bull****. Willard was big and strong but slow, clumsy, and uncoordinated as any professional athlete ever was.
Do we know how many kids attended his school? If there were only four this looks a lot less impressive.
Hes the most textbook technically proficient heavyweight in history.
It wasnt a horrible stoppage but the thing that made it look worse than it was was that earlier Douglas had Saad just as hurt as Douglas was at...
Because he likely would have lost or at least had to go through a tough fight so it was easier making money in appearances as a champion in non...
Zale was completely shot when he fought Cerdan. Hed been ducking LaMotta for years so Cerdan looking good against a guy whose feet looked like...
Lamotta. Whats lost in the hype about Cerdans shoulder excuse is that he used that excuse (among others) in other fights before when he looked...
Not unifying doesn't hurt his legacy so much as assisting in the proliferation and legitimization of fragmented titles in order to avoid fighting...
I have this fight. If anyone was robbed it was Mildenberger. Threw more, landed more, aggressor throughout. He was also fouled several times by...
Liston never beat anyone with the combination of size, power, durability and skill of Ruddock and that includes Cleveland Williams who Liston fans...
Rickard selected Heeney over Sharkey despite the draw in the finale of the elimination series because he felt Heeneys style was more pleasing,...
Pretending that Duran was a natural 154 pounder because he ballooned up to 151 ONCE in 1978 which was ten pounds higher than he weighed 5 months...
So a big, strong, hard hitting heavyweight like Ruddock refusing to back down and throwing bombs every second he was in there, landing some that...
Easy to do when you have the mob backing you and you've paid an army of newspapermen to fill the papers with false stories (sometimes...
