If we're going to change the way we score fights (and we should), I think we have to throw out the whole "must" idea. Instead, let's award the...
Regarding Bonavena being Ali's next challenger after Folley, an Ali-Patterson fight was scheduled for Detroit, April 25, 1967, three days before...
Underrated, overrated, it depends on who's doing the rating... Ring magazine rated Holyfield #3 heavyweight of all time a few years back. I...
Spot on, Mr. Magoo. It just KILLS me how poorly boxing has been marketed in the last 20 years. I truly believe that if boxing were marketed...
The first time I saw Buster was some cable-tv fight against an unknown and he looked awful. I guess I sort of knew about him because I was a bit...
Two from 1980: Duran - Leonard 1 lived up to it's hype, while Holmes-Ali, thought by many 'experts' to be a competitive fight going in, was just sad.
I seem to remember Golota-Nicholson being the main event, Wilson-Briggs under that, and Tua-Ruiz opening. I think they also showed highlights of...
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Briggs popped into my head because he was "unpopular" as in "unknown" and "unacknowledged". Sometimes I wonder if even he knows he held the real...
I thought the "Noughties" or the "Noughts" were the common names for this past decade. Been hearing & reading those terms for years. To answer...
Thing is, Liston did get up and he and Ali began fighting again while Fleisher was telling ref Walcott that Liston had been KO'd. That tells me...
I'll throw Archie Moore's name in. From what I've read and heard he was always a gentleman and carried himself with a lot of dignity. He also was...
I think fans should lobby for this fight to be a 15 rounder.
I can see a lot of folks doing that (assuming we have PCs in 50 years). I mean, that's a big part of what we do here - talk about old fights!
Hey, did anyone mention Howard Davis, Mark Breland, Jimmy Clark, or Audley Harrison yet? :nut
