He also lost to some of them and in several cases received decisions that easily could have gone the other way like against Marty Servo and...
As far as cherry-picking goes, I don't recall Robinson fighting Charley Burley, or Holman Williams, or Lloyd Marshall, or Cocoa Kid, or Dave Sands.
Jones had scored two knockdowns and clearly hurt Griffin, the fight may have been competitive early on but Jones had clearly taken over.
Many of those fights were not against top contenders or guys he really had any business fighting. In Robinson's day people simple fought more....
Was Ali farther removed from his prime than the 41 year old Wladimir that fought Joshua or the 37 year old Lewis that faced Vitali? Because I...
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Aside from a DQ loss in a fight he was winning, Jones didn't lose until he was 35
The losses to LaMotta, Turpin, and Maxim are all prime losses. You also have draws to Jose Basora and Henry Brimm. In Robinson's day fighters...
What makes Holmes lineal?
Jones was never kayoed in his prime so again irrelevant
Jones was vastly more consistent for one, he never lost in his prime whereas Robinson had a number of prime losses.
Ortiz never fought a puncher of note aside from Wilder so I don't see how you would gauge his durability. He never faced Povetkin, Joshua, Whyte,...
If Ali was one of a kind I wouldn't expect him to lose to guys like Frazier and Norton when only in his late 20s and early 30s. Generally people...
McCall was roughly 20 pounds heavier than Ali and Rahman about 25 pounds heavier. So no not the same size as far as I can see.
As I've pointed out prior to the late 50s/60s guys in the 180s never had any problem demolishing larger men. If you traveled back to the 40s and...
