I think the WBC always liked to give the Brit/Comm/Euro champ a shot. Stracey, Magri, Conteh, Honeyghan etc
Well he beat Kalule I guess. And Holmes.
‘You have to take your opportunity with both hands, like I did last week (stopping Nigel Benn), because you don’t know if you’ll get another.’...
Louis Ali Tyson Then it gets murky …. Holmes Lewis Johnson Dempsey Foreman Rock Usyk (though wait til he’s done)
I wouldn’t have Usyk that high. But Louis is a shoe-in at #1
****ing good!
He was WBC #1 contender in 83. (WBA middleweight #1 in 86)
He was actually outboxing Holyfield too
No he just took it to the street because Lane wasn’t warning Evander’s butting which was looking worse than first fight.
I think Tyson can win this on points. He has such underrated boxing ability with his head movement, balance, agility, combination punching, body...
Extremely awkward. And sharp. Should’ve had a 154lb title shot in 83. Unlucky. Very unlucky. Better than Hamed, by a good margin. Just without...
It appeared that way but if it’s effective it’s skilful! He was hard to nail when he didn’t want to be, other times he was happy to walk on...
Rock was shifting between stances on his way in with his head off centre, punching between the shifts or countering off the parries. Smart and...
Voted Dempsey but Marciano has very underrated skill in terms of closing distance and parrying
