Scar watched so we wouldn’t have to, haha.
The wrestler Gorilla Monsoon had a much better name. And of course, the Gorilla had a run-in with Muhammad Ali. [MEDIA]
Ivan was a force of nature on the court. He just blasted the ball by everyone. Boris Becker was a contemporary and built more like a linebacker,...
Well his given name is Jose, but Pipino Cuevas’s nickname (which is how he was always referred to as) translates to cucumber. Maybe because when...
Emanuel Steward related that when he was getting Hearns ready to turn pro, he realized that Hearns in the amateurs fought with open hands … he...
Any fight that inspired Warren Zevon is good enough for me: Hurry home early Hurry on home Boom Boom Mancini’s Fighting Bobby Chacon [MEDIA]
I don’t think so. He retired maybe a couple years later (not sure what year this happened). Basically, McEnroe and Borg and the older Conners...
He only trash-talked umpires, haha. My favorite McEnroe moment: Bjorn Borg was the Swedish iceman, almost a robot. Never, ever got flustered,...
Larry Bird was a better trash-talker than any boxer who ever lived.
I like that one where that dude head-butted him, then wanted to hug and kiss and touch gloves and then hold hands and then hug and kiss again …...
I liked that one fight where he threw a lot of hard jabs.
Sports Illustrated captured it well in this account:...
The craziest thing about the term catchweight is that it originally meant ‘you come in at whatever weight you want, and I’ll come in at whatever...
Butterbean: Hovered between heavyweight and overweight. Much harder to do with the modern junior divisions, but lots of guys probably had world...
Rodolfo “Gatofish” Gonzalez (or is it Gatopez?)
