Clearly the main point is that white Americans largely abandoned boxing after the mid fifties. A thought which has occurred to me about the...
All this is true, but another factor is the US had a much larger military establishment than prior to WWII. The military was another way out for...
I went to the Ring Magazine Yearly ratings for heavyweights and broke them down over decades 1940's white Americans-----25 black Americans-----17...
Anubis & The Long Count Where I differ with your takes is that I see Tunney going back pretty far as he goes through his thirties. Braddock has...
"there aren't weight divisions within the heavyweight division" But Marciano and most of his opponents would not be in the heavyweight division...
Thank you. Your expert opinion is that 8 to 9 inches in height, about a foot in reach, and 50 to 60 pounds in weight will not matter. I'll...
"Tyson was 5' 10"" But Tyson weighed 215 to 220 or more pounds. Boxing has weight divisions not height divisions. Bobby D-ykes was listed at 6'...
"But Tyson didn't weigh 185 lbs." No, Marciano did. Which made him an ordinary sized heavyweight for his era and contrasting with his...
Read what I said about modern heavyweights being bigger. I understand that Tyson did not weigh 185 to 190 lbs. It isn't only Tyson who does...
Modern big men, with huge size pulls, should sweep through the much smaller old-timers. I think Tyson Fury, for example, would be too much for...
Anubis "we don't know when he might have started slowing down" (he=Tunney) He did rely on his legs, and the old saw is that the legs are the...
"midget" There is the second problem that the midget defeated the majority of Dempsey's name opponents--Tunney, Gibbons, Miske, Brennan,...
"The significant difference in the two London fights is that Patterson, well ahead, won by a knockout." But in the 11th round. London didn't last...
"timelines are important" Okay. The timeline is Machen came out of 1957 the #1 contender. He was 24-0. He had just stopped Jackson, one of...
"Unless you really believe that Hoff, Tandberg, Shkor, Agramonte, and a then unknown Harold Johnson were really impressive enough to warrant such...
