We discuss heavies a lot, but not so often other division, so I thought I would rate the middles from 1946 to 1955 to see if I can ignite a...
"Mongoose yesterday argued that Valdes wasn't a big win for Machen because his ranking of #3 came from the NBA and not The Ring." You should...
I came across an article called the Liston Chronicles which details Liston's rise to the championship-- after covering his early fights and the...
What about the NBA ratings? The NBA after all is the major official sanctioning body which put out ratings. And how seriously can I take a...
I also think we should not reach definite conclusions until someone unearths an unambiguous source. However, the article Mongoose produced does...
I think the issue of who was rated number one is a fairly important one for evaluating Patterson. Certainly his critics have really gotten onto...
What day in April was that fight signed? The Machen-Folley fight was on April 9, and these articles on the 10th. If D'Amato had already...
You're doing good research. It appears the situation in 1958 might be a bit more confused than I originally thought. Those yearly ratings are not...
These two articles by the AP do put a different spin on the whole thing, The first article on Rademacher being offered a fight with Folley--...
The public demand was concerning Liston getting it and Machen not getting it, and I was responding to the comparison between the two.
a good point, but I think the modern big men like the Klitschkos and Wilder are better than Terrell. Still, speed kills and might in this...
Well, this rises or falls to an extent on whether there is a case that the IBC represented in fact the forces of evil. The Kefauver Committee and...
Julius Caesar.
I agree. I don't know. We can't divine what never happened. But what did happen was that Machen lost to Johansson, lost to Folley, lost to...
"here is your post from April 4th 2010" At my age, you expect me to remember a post from five years ago???!!!! that said, I see nothing to...
