I never said anything of dying. Being kept out of the ring for five years as the vast majority of men who were fighters beginning in 1941 were is...
I didnt need to cherry pick it. I can see it very clearly on the film. Anyone with one eye and half a brain cell can see it. Nevermind that...
"You can find anything you want by going through the old newspapers..." LOL. Ok, sure you can...
He was a cheater through and through. The guy was known for having bad stamina in the amateurs and suddenly fights one of the fastest 15 rounders...
How brave and how much of a brawler would he have been without steroids...
Somebody above mentioned Holmes-Norton. This is another overrated fight IMO. Holmes controlled that fight clearly outside of a handful of action...
I agree that the Thrilla in Manila is overrated and that Ali controlled most of the fight handily. The FOTC is far better IMO. Best HW fight ever....
LOL. Thats funny. He was considered one of the hardest to hit fighters of the era. One reporter described him as a cork bobbing on a rough sea.
The fight in Philadelphia.
We have a remarkable amount of footage of him given the era he fought in. It would be surprising if anything else turned up but not impossible....
If you need to tell yourself that Im fine with it.
Overrated. His record is 98% padding against nobodies. He never even proved to be the best middleweight in France much less Europe or the World....
The timing of the event wasnt controversial. Leonard had a detached retina and was forced to retired. He briefly came back and looked like crap so...
I bumped my head on a cabinet once just getting a can of peaches. It required stitches but didnt knock me out. I knocked a kids teeth through his...
If a fighter stands still to eat a punch and find a soft spot to lay down its not out of the real of possibility that the punch he gets hit with...
