He's half Welsh, half Italian. The 'Dragon' is on the Welsh flag.
Foreman often didn't do the business when he stepped up and try making a top 10 KOs list for him, once you get past Frazier, Norton, Lyle and...
Fair enough and my mistake The 70k was against a world champion in Ike Williams, Burley never faced a champion for us to draw parallels. The...
Which is little compared to the $177k that his fight with Robinson pulled. Ike Williams was the draw in their contests too. The significance of...
Depends on your cut off really but I think he edges it. Clearly bellow the best though, so it depends on your line.
Looking at the quotes an independent promoter that isn't affiliated with Burley also offered 20k to Robinson for the Burley match up. So Burley's...
Hopkins was far more accurate landing cleaner punches. Calzaghe threw loads more but missed much of his work. A good case for Hopkins clearly...
This is the source below: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19420313&id=WbxRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EWoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2830,6306850 This may...
Toney would throw less and be far more accurate tagging Joe with the right hand at will while Calzaghe would be throwing more but largely...
This is blatantly not true if you'd flicked through the posts you'd see: Robinson turned down 25k for a Burley match up in 1945 demanding 50k....
Frazier was too easy to hit to survive against Tua's bombs. Stylistically it's not a good fight for Frazier. The only way he takes this is if he...
Retires on July 22nd 1950 aged 32 years 10 months. (won his final 4 bouts) March 29th 1981 {The Pittsburgh Press} Interview with Burley....
Between 11/12/1942 and 17/02/1947 (4 years and 2 months) Burley goes 23(12 KOs)-1-1 with 1 NC August 4th 1945 {Pittsburgh Post Gazette} Maurice...
Interesting reading, not my work, enjoy: Sept. 1936 turned pro aged 19 years exactly. January 27th 1939 {The Pittsburgh Press} Charley...
Jones would be hit more than normal but I see Jones walking Nunn down and knocking him out similar to the Harding or Reggie Johnson fights. Those...
