I was responding to No Neck's assertion that peak Mike Tyson was a head to head monster. The counter argument is he lost at what should have been...
The argument becomes circular. He lost in his prime and he had two unavenged losses in what should have been in his near post prime but those...
There are two gentlemen in this thread who are arguing just that.
All athletes have agendas. A poster said athletes denigrate the records of athletes who bested them. I would argue it's the opposite.
Would it be fair to say that Tyson losing to Douglas would have been akin to Ali losing to George Chuvalo in 1966?
My argument isn't that he wasn't a top ten heavyweight but that he wasn't the number one heavyweight. Wilfred Benitez won his first professional...
Is he the only reference point for heavyweight boxers who lost the belt at twenty four years old and never regained it? Does that or does that...
Ali was 36 years old, was in the early stages of Parkinson's, and had been fighting at the amateur and professional level for twenty four years...
There are certain boxers who are treated like paragons of virtue, but they were not cardboard saints. From Liston to Frazier to Norton to Foreman...
TY. That's where I would put James.
Marciano said Ali was the fastest thing on wheels and he didn't know if he could have beaten him but would have like to have tried. When Ali was...
The fight was stopped because he ate his opponent's ear.
My rankings- Can/Journeyman/Near Great/ Great./All Time Great
The guy we are talking about lost to a journeyman in his prime and lost to another member of the IBHOF twice by stoppage, a tko and...
Ironically Rocky himself didn't believe he'd have such an easy go of it.
