The word "overrated" should be banned from use in the Classic forum. No offense as you usually come up with good posts but I'm getting tired of...
Crowding, Briscoe-type pressure would be the wrong word to use though. McCallum didn't beat opponents with his physicality but his ability to...
You can pick apart anybody's record like that.
Fun fights to watch though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6hqQXQ010Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PkyZ_C7LqM...
I think he needed a win over Harada for top pound for pound honours. A great fighter nonetheless. He took on anybody the division could offer at...
Stander was put in there so the fans could view an entertaining title defense with no risk to Frazier's title, who was holding out for a big money...
Carter's most devastating KO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0LQ5EXSNXI
Carter at his best could outwork Abraham. I know he was not championship calibre, but he was pretty good in a very tough middleweight era. Abraham...
Billy Smith was still regarded as a ring legend by many up to the 1930's, despite his reputation for fouling. In recent times his name has more so...
Then again Fritzie Zivic was never DQ'd, even though he boasted of his ability to foul opponents in various ways. Saddler knew how to work a cut...
To me Haye is just a built-up challenger. He has fought inactively and hasn't proven a whole lot at heavyweight except that he could edge wins...
Hearns did not hit harder than Bob Satterfield and LaMotta beat a lot of good fighters who had a stature of 5'11-6'1 so fighting a Thomas Hearns...
I've studied all of Schmeling's filmed bouts and I feel he was never better than in the first fight with Joe Louis. He even kept up a good form...
Give Jake LaMotta 15 rounds and I think he would get the TKO. LaMotta doesn't have a reputation as a puncher due to his KO record, but it didn't...
If Ali was somehow "faded" when he fought Frazier then Louis was hardly at his peak himself when he fought Schmeling. The "golf" excuse was not a...
