Robby had an utterly obscene advantage in experience at this stage. Floyd was an eight round fighter. Maxim described Patterson by saying "He...
Hagler had slowed down considerably by the time he took on SRL, but he'd previously chewed up southpaws Hamsho 2X, Minter and Seales. Pernell's...
Nat Fleischer, a man who might generally be expected to favor old timers, asserted that in his opinion, Muhammad Ali was the fastest heavyweight...
Certainly, the definitive right hand of Mike's career was the one he took out Coetzee with, and that's the one to be looked at closely in...
Weaver-LeDoux deserves a second look before committing to that. Mike jabbed his way to the lopsided decision. Did he do it strictly with superior...
Rocky decimated Rex Layne with vastly superior hand speed, and Nat Fleischer correctly forecast that Primo had the hand speed advantage over Max...
Uniquely Miske. Nobody else dropped Billy before or after Benton Harbor. Willard, prime Bat Levinski for the count years before anybody else could...
Stallings at least was far more talented than many realize, had that monstrous upset of Shavers the year after Lyle, and decisioned Mac Foster in...
Marciano might have voted for himself in this thread, and was always candid about his slowness of foot (which he believed was due in part to his...
Norton was a slower starter than Frazier, aside from the Bobick anomaly, and sustained as many as 15 career knockdowns. Lyle wiped out Rondon in...
Wlad ran out of gas in 11 rounds against Purrity. An outcome like that raises questions about whether or not he was in shape. People get caught...
With his incredible conditioning and discipline, he could have gone on for years with the championship distance in place. The trouble is that Jose...
I can smell the smoke when I see and hear him speak. I hope his ghost haunts POS Jose Suckamain just for fun. (And Dung King, and other favored...
Goldfield is the easy answer, but he took a vicious, absolutely savage hammering in the press for "quitting" against Frank Erne in his first title...
If he'd lived a full life and retired healthy, there might not be a debate about whether or not he was superior to Duran. (Benny Leonard's own...
