I can't see Conn having a prayer. He was fast but Clay, 40 pounds heavier. was faster. Of all those mentioned I like Tunney's and Walcott's...
You mention another aspect of Clay/Ali I disliked: Clowning. Call me a fuddy-duddy but I admire someone who has and allows others to have dignity....
Morrison was a pumped up juice bag. I don't buy him. I'm confidently picking Machen up until the last year of his career.
I never liked Ali's trash talking. He popularized it. Good sportsmanship was the prevailing ethic before he came along. He made it OK to embarrass...
Holmes is by nature a conservative businessman with old-fashioned conservative values. He gauges success by what he owns and has in the bank. His...
Ali was still a big draw and I think the boxing powers were extremely reluctant to let go of him for that reason. That may explain in part why he...
I know this might sound like a goofy question but how do professional fighters qualify for health insurance? Does anyone know?
Referees in 1959 generally allowed beatings to continue longer than they do today. The Griffith-Paret and Moore-Ramos fatalities, both televised...
I stand corrected.
. . . and then the two stinkers against Leon Spinks, the mugging by Holmes and finally losing to Berbick, an unknown to most people at the time.
I watched the Evangelista fight today for the first time. A godawful performance it was. You could see clearly in the late rounds how disgusted...
Ali had a big payroll to meet. The business of Muhammad Ali wasn't being run efficiently. He probably felt a sense of responsibility to all those...
He looked awful in the second Spinks fight. You knew he wanted desperately to win. He was dead serious, but all he had left was a weak, flicking...
Barney Baker was a 340-pound thug who worked as a leg breaker for the Teamsters Union under Jimmy Hoffa. There were times when he and Liston...
