Little reported fact that one of Parker's early opponents, Clarence White, died after their fight and that this reportedly affected him greatly...
Bill may be right and Liston's backers might have demanded he "do a job" to whomever they could get good odds and make fat cash with. Putting...
I think the poster child for this thread is Tony "KO King" Gardner, who was promoted heavily out of OKC by Pat O'Grady and Ring Magazine and got a...
Palomino's title defenses couldn't have been any more handpicked and soft. Best he fought was Muniz on the downside and he almost lost twice....
Scott Clark getting into a war of words with much bigger James Salerno at their gym in Orlando, inviting him outside, and then pounding him...
Reading a thread on a Classic Boxing Forum centering around Galileo and time machines is a unique and not unpleasant experience, but one I'd like...
Tough call. I think they're clearly going different directions at this point, obviously, and the question is whether Hagler had enough altitude to...
You can't convince me that Jesse James Hughes wouldn't have eventually walked down and worn down Felix Trinidad and knocked him out for the title...
Johnny Bumphus against Lloyd Honeyghan. He could barely make it into the ring and stand on his own.
The last time somebody started a Monzon thread, I decided to go to YouTube and revisit his title defenses. First one I pulled up was Monzon...
It looks shady to me. I'm not naïve enough to think fighters will take a dive if the financial motivation makes it riskier or plain stupid to...
Perfectly said. Turning down a mega payday that your opponent is literally begging for to fight for a tenth of the money is the most reliable...
I have a hard time seeing the Prior that struggled at his peak mightily with DuJuan Johnson and get floored by a nobody like Akio Kameda stand up...
Ramos was pretty protected until he finally had to jump into deep water. I remember him getting stopped by journeyman Ted Sanders on the way up...
I'm not sure Holmes' pre-Shavers competition was all that soft, first of all. Young Sanford Houpe was a "pushed" fighter who showed out very well...
