I was looking at the ballot earlier and Paz had a good case for being the worst fighter on it.
He was finished at world class level for sure.
I think with certain fighters (whitaker, Duran, Hearns) it's more a case of rating them higher when all things are considered. Everyone has a...
While this is the sort of excellently skilled boxer-puncher match-up that looks great on paper, I tend to think the subtleties of each of their...
He had a very good run. Definitely comfortably better than average longevity for a boxer-puncher of his style...very offensive focused, distinctly...
Mancini was probably overhyped when he was champ, but he was a legitimately good/very good 135lber (albeit one with some obvious limitations)...
In retrospect, Julio's run at 140 after the Meldrick Taylor fight was very disappointing for someone supposed to be arguably the best in the...
Ballas was very talented technically, but he was also an alcoholic underachiever that talked in interviews about going through the motions for...
It was obviously his way of making known that he did not agree with the justification for the war that the American government was selling. He...
I get what you're saying, but I don't really agree. Plenty of 5'11'ish guys in all of the post-war decades that were natural middleweights for a...
Oh, he was a legit contender, no doubt. Just got overhyped quickly.
Far too much dumb back and forth humourless need to tear down great fighters in an attempt to elevate the other in this thread; it reminds me of...
A few of them were definitely fighters that would have spent substantial parts of their career above 160 in the '40s/50s but certainly not all of...
He was inactive as hell and had fought about 7 rounds in five years. There was certainly reason to think he had declined, few fighters on that...
RIP Israel. Feels weird reading through this, none of us took it very seriously at the time to actually do Sal's thread much justice, I mean, an...
