I'll try again to explain my position. Brown? After the Super Bowl there was a lot of discussion of the greatest all time NFL players. My list,...
I was thinking of average ranch dogs. Don't know how many greyhounds a typical jackrabbit is likely to run into. But, I also don't know if a...
Tony Dorsett & O. J. Simpson ran the hundred in 9.57 in the superstars competition. That is quite a bit faster than Brown. There is a famous...
"why is it that much smaller men in his time, could never catch him" Being small doesn't make one fast. Do you have evidence that the backs in...
"a much bigger player eating a face full of Brown hip" The player is Sam Huff who was 6' 1" and 230 lbs. He was about the same size as Brown....
We do seem to be on the same page. I completely agree with your summation. Of course, if we judge a man in his own time against the field he...
"skinny middleweight" Fair point.
Well, I checked on Brown as a track athlete. I don't know how accurate the info is as it was on a blog, but he seems to have competed in the AAU...
The 1910 census lists Wills as being 21 and so born in 1889 which means he was 35 in 1924. I consider the census the best source. His gravestone...
Good points. I was wondering about Ike's power also. But he was coming on and those punches which took out Byrd look like they could have taken...
Excellent point on Jones and Cooper. Reminds me of the Firpo argument on this thread. Wills dominated Firpo but didn't stop him and so he would...
My take is that the general level of boxing skill has improved a great deal over the decades. For me the only fair way to rate historical...
The experts weren't really nearly as certain that Dempsey would beat Wills as they later were that Liston would defeat Ali. Nor do I buy that the...
my take is Walcott is simply better than Carnera and Sharkey. Baer has a puncher's chance, but I think Walcott outboxes him. Schmeling was right...
Yes it did. The eye is better than it has been for years. We really should appreciate the knowledge and skills physicians have in the modern...
