By that time he was fighting on the low-tier casino circuit or in New Zealand. If he was getting TV exposure in the U.S., I missed it (and it...
Louis throwing shade at Mike Tyson before Mike was even born! Your complete quotes talk about how he improved. Perhaps the people who are saying...
The Muslims should have been the mandatory and even the atheists were ranked above the Christians during that ranking period.
Tremendous name and promotional value? I don’t see it. People had heard of him. Boxing fans had seen him fight. But there weren’t people lining up...
I gather he got ranked by the WBO when he beat Shane Cameron because he won the WBO Orient and Pacific title or some such bauble — the...
We’re maybe four years from @scartissue reviewing four-round undercard fights from armoire and bingo halls in obscure cities. He’s got to be...
One slight (double) correction: It’s Sugar Ray Seales, not Fields, and Marvin won a 10-round unanimous decision in their first fight and fought...
Instead of Dr Steelhammer, Wlad should have been nicknamed Dr Sominex. Not because he put opponents to sleep, but because he cured insomnia for a...
Sandy Saddler beat Willie Pep all three times they fought. The other one, Pep got the decision but it was because Sandy was too much of a...
I think the biggest hindrance in figuring out fantasy/mythical matchups of eras is before and after the day-before weigh-in became the norm....
Vince definitely had more exposure to the boxing public via more televised fights. And when he took Kostya Tszyu’s zero, that was a big deal....
I prefer all Irish boxers wear green. So I’ll go with Micky Ward. I remember one time either ESPN or USA Network weekly fights landed on St....
When I think of Trice, the moment that sticks out is from the USA Network’s “Tuesday Night Fights.” Tyrone won a fight and called out James Toney...
New York Times boxing writer Michael Katz once told me he had long been investigating a rumor/tip that Bert Cooper was Joe Frazier’s illegitimate...
Thank you for fighting the good fight, so to speak, to get a staple of many of our boxing upbringings get proper recognition for posterity. I...
