"original thread" Such as it is, but the Turpin thing is your baby, and in fact so is the Don C obsession as I think almost everyone else would...
"it was a cut eye stoppage" Walker had a cut eye, but "The fight was stopped in the eighth round with Walker hanging on the ropes, a...
I think it telling that Robinson passed up a rubber match with Turpin when it was considered the biggest box office fight out there, "if...
The Walker-Dundee fight seems to be a little more than just a cut eye. There was a lot of talk in the press in its wake about Walker being washed...
6' 3" 215 lbs. Pretty small heavyweights for today. I don't think they could cut it against the likes of Lewis or the Klitschkos, or probably...
I don't see how individual versus team sports has much to do with my point. Do you rate golfers on their worst ever rounds?
I haven't seen the photo. The venue quibble makes sense, but it is the only one that seems to carry water. The area certainly was populous...
That was widely discussed in the thread. A ringside reporter did claim the attendance was in the thousands and the gate $5000. I don't...
I see Schmeling as the second-best heavyweight of the 1930's, but he could blow fights. If the Sharkey of 1932 could manage to get a decision,...
I watched the full fight yesterday, with sound off, so I am not influenced by the announcer. I didn't think Robinson was ever very effective. It...
I don't think it valid at all to compare the pre-modern contenders to the type of physical types that have come on, Wlad is simply too big for...
I judge Louis as better than Marciano, so naturally I think he wins all of these.
