Jeffries best win is Fitzsimmons. One thing I like about his reign is that he retired when he did and didn't spend his entire reign avoiding...
If promoters won't pay him 30, 000 than an easy solution is to fight for less. Pretty simple really. He fought for far less than 30,000 earlier...
John L Sullivan and Jeffries are both Americans. Many other parts of the world were less virulently racist than America and didn't share the...
He also seems to have changed his mind on multiple offers demanding more money. It's utterly crazy to suppose a fight with Battling Jim Johnson...
Let's stop trying to excuse Johnson ducking his top contenders. If race was such a huge issue a Johnson-Burns fight would have been impossible to...
Fewer losses is due to careful management and fighting less frequently. Norton's inability to handle punchers badly hurts his legacy. He was a...
I think Liston is too small to compete with a lot of top heavies of later eras, he was good in his own time but wouldn't be able to compete with...
Sosnowski, Duhaupas, and Stiverne never challenged for the lineal title. I don't see how any of them are relevant. When Bowe, Foreman, and...
As for Lewis having an easier time getting a high ranking in todays division, I don't see much evidence to support such an idea. In Lewis's day a...
I don't see how lack of domination by American heavyweights would affect how quickly Lewis is moved. He would still probably take the same amount...
In any case Lennox Lewis followed the Mason fight by spending the next 18+ months fighting guys far outside the rankings so I would guess they...
If you look at his record there is a pretty big gap between the Everett Martin fight and his next fight (about 9 months) whereas the gap between...
I think the rationale for rating Witherspoon ahead of Mason is that he was a far superior fighter whose accomplishments dwarf Mason's. He may not...
Gary Mason fought in December 1990. Less than 4 months before he faced Lewis. If there was a retirement it was an extremely brief one. Where is...
Ring Magazine ratings at the end of 1990 are 1. Evander Holyfield 2. Mike Tyson 3. Razor Ruddock 4. James Douglas 5. Tim Witherspoon 6. Carl...
