You flung a lot of points at the wall and some of it has stuck. I commend you for thinking about this a whole lot.
I second your emotion. I would add that he fathered children with too many women. Five or six tykes out of wedlock I can understand but the U.S....
Tunney decisions Louis, boxing masterfully and hurting the Brown Bomber several times, but Joe kayoes the Fighting Marine in the rematch....
Tunney was a "stylistic turd", how poetic! If only I could figure out the meaning of it. I looked it up in my lexicon of boxing terms but didn't...
He was clearly the dominant heavyweight during the years when the US government sidelined Ali for refusing to be drafted into the Army. A true...
What happened to that middleweight the moment Johnson rose from the canvas?
I'm confident Jack Johnson would knock Mike out. He'd take him into the late rounds and annihilate him. Don't forget that 15 rounds was nothing...
But which of the four does he beat? I see Liston and Foreman being too big and strong and Ali too resourceful. Ali would figure out a way to...
I disagree vehemently. Tyson is getting lots of social media attention these days, but what does he stand for, what's the meaning we attach to...
You mean Bonavena hired Martin to be a sparring partner?
Sugar Ray had a reputation among promoters and fight people for being difficult, arrogant and greedy. He would back out of fights, or threaten to,...
Emanuel Steward said Liston, after winning the title, began living like a comfortable middle-aged man, and he mentions that Sonny began golfing....
Calling Albert Westphal in case Burns faints in his dressing room.
I'm glad to see Pone Kingpetch mentioned. He hailed from Hua Hin, a Thai beach city, three hours from Bangkok. There's a statue there to...
A good subject for discussion: Guys who could take a punch until someone knocked them out. And then they developed a china chin.
