I don't know that I'd like to be him, but I would have liked to have seen the fights that Arthur Donovan refereed from his vantage point.
Tyson at his best has a puncher's chance against anybody who ever lived, IMO for what's that's worth, and any of you are free to figure that's not...
I'm with Sharkey all the way. Fitz's all-time reputation is built too much on romance, IMO. The quality of Sharkey's competition in the 1920s and...
Louis-Farr Louis-Galento Baer-Galento
His only chance would have been if he got to Mills before Maxim. Even then, I think he was too green for Freddie. Freddie may have been on the...
Nutrition and drugs, less frequency of fights, more protective matchmaking, improved conditioning methods to name a few.
Ellis tried valiantly to keep his weight at middleweight early in his career when he was a stringbean. I think he finally just gave up and let...
I'm an older poster and what you say is true, if over-simplified. I do check facts on boxrec and sometimes google, but I generally don't do a lot...
Machen vs Joey Orbillo too!
Billy Petrolle was lauded as the "old man" who beat all the young bucks when he kayoed Justo Suarez, King Tut, Billy Townsend, Eddie Ran, and...
Gavilan-Bratton 3. I don't know how Bratton survived. The ref should have stopped it well before the last round. It ruined Bratton both as a...
Cockell is underappreciated, IMO
So most of the hometown crowd thought he won? Pretty convincing argument, huh? Hardly. And that's what the UPI reporter was trying to convey with...
If you want to call that outlasting him. Not much quality of life.
Terrell claimed that Ali rubbed his eye on the ropes and then thumbed it. The doctor diagnosed the damage after the fight as a "blow-out fracture...
