I guess he did all right to even play in a sport which was only his third best after track and field and football. He played just 289 games over...
"Pastrano was a world beater" No. But neither was Valdes, for whatever reason Pastrano blew two fights to ordinary Europeans, but he has a...
Are you kidding? Those are below average marks. He was ordinary as a baseball player. If your point is that he was good enough to play in...
Layne couldn't beat Baker, but neither could Valdes. Jackson was good enough to beat Baker in 1956. Layne was definitely on the way down, but...
Not that awesome a group. And he hardly cleaned out Johansson or Cooper, or even Cavicchi, who was better than Neuhaus.
This is a better point than your trashing of Pastrano or Harris is in my judgment. But lots of guys get hosed--what about Del Flanagan who...
Nor was Harold Johnson when he beat Valdes, nor Moore in 1953 when he beat Valdes, nor probably Satterfield when he beat Valdes. The question...
"hardly likely to win the heavyweight title" but capable of winning the light-heavyweight title. it would have been foolish not to go for the...
What is your argument? Obviously, The Ring magazine didn't agree with you. Maxim had been rated eight times as a light-heavyweight, where he...
but Layne was rated by the quarterly NBA ratings at the time of the Pastrano fight NBA ratings, October 1955 Champion--Rocky Marciano...
"He never actually did anything" This of a man who was the light-heavyweight champion and won that title from Harold Johnson, and at 19 defeated...
Thorpe was a great football player, the best of his era, but as a major league baseball player he was ordinary. Interestingly, baseball was the...
these stats are a mile and a half off, ever rated fighters Valdes ever beat as listed here Ezzard Charles, Don Co-kell, Heinz Neuhaus, Hurricane...
"Willie Pastrano defeated just ONE heavyweight who was rated in the top 10 at the time he fought Pastrano." ???? I know he was sort of a split...
They weren't even able to win the Olympic championships in those days. The question of America's decline versus Eastern Europe's is and will...
