It's laughable. If Norton shows up at the same weight he did for his best career performance, the second Ali fight, he'll be a whole 5 kg heavier...
Walcott was beyond ancient when he lost to Marciano, whom Norton wouldn't have favorable chances against anyway. Walcott was 194 lbs at his best....
Where film?
Gladiators were very valuable and they didn't often fight to the death. They were celebrities and crowd favorites, sort of like WWE stars. It's...
16,000 fight films kept in the dark for no reason. Even the material they make available is tampered with. I bought the broadcast recording from...
Guess we'd have to find the newspaper article quoted in the story. Not up to the task, personally.
Now that is a good story
Absolutely. He was getting flat footed in the 8th and he went swinging in the 9th. Had he let Martin have those last rounds he would have still...
I don't know if the retina was from this fight, Martin's daughter is in the comments on YouTube though so she might know, but Liston was majorly...
Walcott is paradoxically both Norton's best stylistic match up and worst nightmare rolled into one, a cutie with a punch. I see Norton keeping up...
Sonny doesn't have Patterson's endurance, especially not the Martin version.
Do you see Bonavena out pointing Liston here? I also use the Martin fight to judge Liston of 1969 but if he hadn't been knocked out, Sonny would...
Considering how much trouble Young, Norton, Spinks and Shavers gave him during that time period (in fact, Shavers aside, all of them arguably beat...
It was in the most recent thread about Ali vs Walcott.
I remember some posters theorizing that 1980 Ali could beat 1947 Joe Walcott. You never know what you'll find here.
