To be fair to Lennox, he was taller, heavier and used his own holding tactics, especially following it up with pulling heads into his uppercut. I...
Nothing like megsing a Year 11 when in Year 7 and then getting hacked down and just missing the chalky white stuff - changes your world view and...
Council estate/secondary school playing fields chalky specimens.
It's a real flaw in Mike's use of the Fitz shift. He falls in square and doesn't truly shift stance if the distance or angle isn't right, stands...
One could argue that armbar attempts to break arms in the clinch was done exactly because Mike didn't trust his ability to control the physicality...
Much more than you think - frame doesn't lend well to moving up from 147 to 175 lbs, not when he's probably a natural 154lb fighter. The...
Mike Tyson would smash Ali in lifting weights comparisons. I'd venture that with his short, compact, fast-twitch musculature that he would squat,...
1974 split decision. 1964 Ali would start off like he did against Liston with excessive footmovement and headmovement. 74's right hand lead and...
1974 doesn't have 67's pure one punch handspeed or combination punching fluidity. He plants more and hits harder with the straight right and right...
Stylistic preference and physical capabilities. Pre-exile Ali jabs to the body, hides his chin and dances out of range. He was, however, taller...
Yep, Hearns liked to stiff arm and Ali did so too at times. Drago was partial to a bit of stiff arming too but I suppose when fighting during...
Ali was humbled by Frazier and forced to accept the need to change. That much is evidenced to me by the tactics employed in the second fight.
Roy stopped fighters who held up against other big punchers of his era. Speed generates power and Roy's speed was insane at times. The...
Joe Louis' straight right or SRR's stoppage of Fullmer.
I've said it before and I will say it again: Any combat sport is a counterintuitive social affair where we celebrate behaviours that the Western...
