Probably a combination of things: Being good at a young age doesn’t guarantee that one will progress from that to greatness. All prodigies do not...
Master Mitchell outfoxes and outworks the novice Loma and sends him back to school (or the amateurs). Mitchell fought his entire championship...
That one to me is much more understandable upon watching it a few times. Sumbu obviously had issues with understanding how to fight a southpaw...
Yeah, I think Larry Holmes was under 200 for his first fight and would have otherwise fit had he not made his comeback (barely over for Tyson, way...
Sure, but other weight divisions don’t carry a 25-pound range. If it were a medium-sized (by today’s standards) heavyweight-range fighter’s goal...
We’ve got cats and dogs existing together on the same page of this thread. Someone needs to work in a pet lizard or hamster.
I’m talking about someone who never, ever weighed in at below or above the division’s limit in their entire professional careers — NOT who had the...
Great info. Thanks for sharing your research. Louisville obviously has a rich boxing history.
I forgot to ask which fight your cat liked best. And how he/she scored them. I have a male cat named Canelo — he’s a feisty, 22-pound ginger. Not...
This is and has always been true in sport: Winners adjust. Losers make excuses. (In Tyson’s case, he doesn’t have to — he has an army of fanbois...
On the other end of the spectrum are Tyson fanbois who insist he is undefeated and want to put an asterisk by every so-called loss: Douglas *Lost...
Some of these we will never, ever know about, because … The first rule of Classic Unknown Fights is you do not talk about Classic Unknown Fights....
They were at American University of Puerto Rico. Pretty sure we passed by Estadio Roberto Clemente on our treks back and forth. As for Puerto...
I remember some controversy around Sal Marchiano, the original ESPN boxing play-by-play man, who tried to get “Good night sweet prince” over as a...
Dwight is a handful for anyone H2H.
