You can disagree with greynotsoold's opinion, but calling him "beyond ill-informed" only demonstrates how ill-informed you are, IMO. He's one of...
It's the guys who had really long careers and never reported to work out of shape that blow my mind: Floyd Mayweather, Holly Mims, Bernard...
Joe Louis did much the same thing when he retired by naming the leading contenders to fight in the elimination tournament in 1949. The difference...
One factor in considering championships, especially in the early time under discussion, is the matter of popular acceptance by the public of who...
I agree with this, except that he seems to be overrated by a majority of the contributors to this forum, IMO.
I absolutely agree. He was a very good fighter, but his reign as champion was dismal, very few defenses and he made no attempt to clean up the...
I grew up reading Boxing Illustrated in the 1960s and "Madcap Maxie' popped into my head. In my quiet time when I have absolutely nothing to do,...
Madcap Maxie
To my eye, Sharkey's victory over Carnera was in no way an easy fight. He was aware of Carnera's strength and fought very carefully throughout. I...
I think discussing fantasy fights and making P4P comparisons of fighters from different eras and weight classes is a total waste of time.
Maybe somewhere in the top 500.
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Boone Kirkman
Given that Liston was stopping everyone else at this time in the early rounds and that Machen only had full use of one hand, I'd say he did...
The injury was documented in the Seattle newspapers even prior to the fight. I know when I watched the fight years afterward, I was convinced he...
