His best wins aside from Holyfield are all journeyman level at best
Moorer largely avoided the best of his day. He was very carefully matched. How are the abilities of the athletes of his day relevant when he...
If we look at sports in general many athletes who competed as recently as the early 2000s could be said to have competed in poor eras. Case in...
Normally you might expect further improvement with more and more fights but Hrgovic may be a special case due to his extensive amateur experience....
Prior to beating Wladimir Klitschko Tyson Fury hadn't beaten anyone beyond the journeyman gatekeeper level. Clearly who someone has beaten is not...
What evidence is there that Wilder is one of his chief rivals? The only top 10 heavyweights Wilder has beaten are Stiverne and Ortiz. For all we...
Thought this might be an interesting matchup. Who wins? Beterbiev probably rehydrates to the high 180s so weight is probably roughly on par.
I was thinking of the Liston rematch when he was 23 years old, but your right that after 1966 he was never under 211 again. He was able to make...
During his 60s peak he was as light as 201 1/2 and 206 pounds. Given as a heavyweight he had no weight to make I find it pretty unlikely he was...
Floyd did beat a prime version of Cotto. Cotto was 3 years younger than Mayweather and hadn't been fighting as long. If he was past it what...
As far as Marciano goes, I doubt he would come close to dominating the heavyweight division but its possible he might be able to beat some of the...
With todays early weigh ins both Ali and Holmes could easily make cruiserweight. In fact some of the bigger recent cruiserweights like Murat...
Also, the argument that Marciano's era sucks seems to be contradicted by the fact that we have multiple examples of contemporaries and near...
The argument about guys Marciano's size not doing well today is interesting but by the same token guys the size of Ali and Holmes have not done...
