Great example.
The idea is that they lost a (non-title) fight and then in their very next fight won the world title. So there was no gap between then losing and...
Not exactly what you’re looking for but Eusebio Pedroza got knocked out twice in a row and then won his first world title four fights later and...
My top 10 is something like this: 1. Benny Leonard 2. Roberto Duran 3. Joe Gans 4. Ike Williams 5. Carlos Ortiz 6. Tony Canzoneri 7. Pernell...
I basically agree with everything you’ve written here so can’t add too much! Another top post.
Great post.
It helped it. Imagine he retired at 26 straight after the DeJesus fight. He’d be considered as one of the best lightweights of all time. But no...
Good lord.
Against Ernesto Marcel?
Well, Jackson cracked McCallum pretty well and wobbled him a bit but then Mike went to work and got Jackson out of there in quick time. Hagler...
I’m leaning towards Bennie, but Jackson has a puncher’s chance against any middleweight in history, Briscoe included. Intriguing match up.
The Williams KO was up there with the best single punch kayos in history. It was arguably the most surprising one since Tarver KO’ed Jones and...
Ali-Frazier is the better trilogy on the strength of the first and third fights but fights 1 and 2 of Bowe-Holyfield were great ones as well. I...
When I think of Argentinian fighters, I think of a particular type - rugged and strong and looking a lot like Juan Roldan or some variation of his...
That’s insane!
