choklab Just curiously--when was Henry Cooper the #1 contender?
"What in Johnson's resume . . . ?" Well, if we compare fighters who were ranked at one time or another among the top five heavyweights--...
Well, as I said before Walcott was a back injury, Herschel Jacobs a cut (when Johnson was 43), and Mederos too bizarre to consider. So we are...
"It is not like he blew out nobodies and struggled with the best" Fair enough. This is a valid point, and I think a very important one in...
I don't agree. Three of Johnson's five stoppages were by injury (Walcott), a cut in his last fight when he was 43, and the bizarre Mederos fight....
Liston wins them all in the 1960's. He was an extraordinary big man. Only Johnson might make a good fight of it. Pastrano's foot speed...
I see Johnson as having a better chance than you guys do. I would rate Patterson having a slight edge, let's say 6-5, off his performance against...
"Pastrano got a hiding in his title effort" Well, I was wondering why Pastrano was rated so low in contrast to the similar, but not quite as...
I think a very good list. The one issue for me would be Corbett rating over Fitzsimmons as Fitz beat him and also went 15 years w/o losing to a...
Wlad Klitschko is fantastically talented. Just watch his lateral movement. If he were scaled down to 190 lbs. I think he still easily beats the...
Well, I just watched it today when you asked me to. Ali was popular, but the crowd seemed to be rooting for Patterson, who was liked, and...
"why did Ali call him the most skilled man he ever fought?" Well, the two Ali fights are on film, as are the two films with Liston. Not...
The flaw in this argument is that Liston might just have been a better and more solid p4p fighter than Patterson, or in other words a 190 lb....
