Well, he's still too heavy, but this is a step in the right direction. Now if he would fight more than once every six months and/or face someone...
To Zakman, it seems, the entire spectrum of boxing ability begins and ends with the all-defining, all-encompassing chin.
Do you really think there's only been one fighter worthy of inclusion on this list whose prime wasn't in the last 25 years?
Yes. And so is Morales. You can't lose all-time great status for getting old.
Patterson was actually down at least 21 times that I know of: once against a journeyman in an early fight once against Pete Rademacher once...
Yes. Conn didn't "beat" Louis on the cards. He was slightly ahead after 12 rounds, and no matter what he'd done, he would've still needed to at...
I suppose a case can be made, but I don't think it's a good one. Lewis was a hard-hitter for sure and would be a threat to anyone, but I think...
No, I don't think the story as described right there necessarily indicates that Liston was afraid of Rocky. It could be interpreted that way, but...
Um, no, that's a pretty odd interpretation of what I wrote. The argument had no relation to whether Holyfield was too big or too small to beat...
Nope. You name a top 10 heavyweight anytime from the early '60s through the late '70s, and the odds are Ali fought them. There has never been a...
Lou Duva also recounts this story in a little segment he wrote in "Undefeated." And Frazier was every bit the class act he sounds like there...
Was Michael Spinks the all-time knockout king who some of their common opponents opponents said hit harder than Tyson himself?
More or less all of those are true. There wasn't some one ultimate reason for him to retire, but lots of small factors contributing to it. One...
I'm going to make this brief: No.
Marciano was very inexperienced at the time of the first LaStarza fight. He never put on boxing gloves until he was well into his 20s, had a very...
