"Schmeling wasn't in his prime when he ko'd Louis" If this is true, it only proves that the term "prime" means nothing. *When was...
Suzie Q I was not maintaining that the Euro heavies were better than the Americans--they clearly were not--only that trashing them seems an odd...
The most interesting bit from these articles is that Dempsey was credited with KO'ing Battling Johnson, who had a win years earlier over Wills....
"had fought just one name and lost to that one name by crushing KO" "His record was 0-1 against name fighters." Actually he was 3-1 Omelio...
Without ratings, what does the term leading contender mean? Brennan was not beating the best out there with the arguable exception of...
Folley KO'd him in a rematch. Fair point. But exactly what does it mean? Robinson KO'd Fullmer in their 1957 rematch, so he also won their first...
big man and little man. I take Dempsey. Greb beat some heavies, but they weren't as good as Dempsey,
"Renault" Okay. Why didn't Dempsey defend against Renault? by most sources, Norfolk was not 39 in 1922. He was 27 or 29. *by the way, I...
As Marciano's head to head critics always obsess over size matters. It is hard to see Robinson winning, and his performance against Maxim, and...
Just on Williams, for a guy supposedly protected, he certainly got in the ring with some dangerous punchers, Bob Satterfield, John Holman,...
The logic here seems to be not how good the fighter was over his career, but how highly rated at the time of the fight(s) The flaw in this...
If this is true, it really does put Dempsey in a bad light, I have been sympathetic to Dempsey to a degree about the Wills issue because of...
Povetkin losing on a DQ when the ref DQ'd him after he knocked out his opponent would not make the 15-15 opponent a hot contender, at least in...
