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Still little in it. BUT nothing at all to do with the Mentality of a fighter, and this IS the predominent factor. And living demands make for...
Great fighters are great fighters no matter when they fought nobody ever disputes this! But when comparing era/periods, you have too dispute. Some...
Fighting IS a State of Mind. Fitness IS Key and Skill is; to the finish line, a photo finish, second! thats right Skill is second to fitness,...
impulsively I would say the perfect Tyson, Joe Louis or SRR and the like... but in reality the first step (1) - before approaching any sort of...
Jock McAvoy and Bert Gilroy, Britain's best middleweights, both handled tougher, better & bigger men than Hopkins ever was. Marcel Cerdan, strong,...
Benny Lynch socking out Jackie Brown and the French Gypsie Theo Medina doing the same to Jackie Paterson... that is exactly what I thought when...
thats right so L-HWs that stepped up like Conn, Moore, Cockell - not so much Charles, whom I always classed as a L-HW but someone pointed out a...
Glandular Disease, water retention, fat build up and systems breaking down, he suffered for literal years with the disease untill his body...
win or lose these guys ARE All A or B fighters, the only thing that takes anything from them is past peak lesser performances, but this also...
pretty fair, but Cockell IS a B+ fighter typically speaking given that he was a L-HW who suffered with a deadly (it actually killed him), health...
Exactly. the HW... the S-HW? Two completely different animals, to Rate them and Compare them and Fantasy match them is, in my mind, not being...
this. the Mob and those that run the sport can make money on either end. there's Promoters, Refs, Newspaper men and Board members owned as well....
ALL of them would be fighting a division up! that also puts it into perspective when comparing past and present fighters. like Hopkins vs SRR...
