An excellent point. Mike begat Tommy. Here, I'm deferring to what boxWRECK describes as a 7-3 advantage in rounds for O'Dowd in this ND bout, but...
That tremendously comprehensive catalog of ring fatalities did not include Resto-Collins, and maybe it should have.
Tommy was always emphatic that Mike was superior, and they certainly sparred enough. Common opponents included Greb, George Chip, Wiggins,...
Here, another very good and familiar friend chimes in with his own views and analysis concerning Burley, penned a half dozen years back. (At this...
You're referring to GayJoy? (Sorry, but for me, "Floyd" is reserved for the classy Patterson alone.) Much better question. A few years ago on an...
I agree with the consensus offered so far on this. In 1975, Ken him with everything he had, and couldn't stagger JQ, as shot and hopelessly out of...
With his background, he could succeed Ferdinand Marcos as the next despotic ruler of the Philippines. His political career has already begun. He's...
Maybe connected to the broken back he sustained in that barroom brawl prior to Ellis? (An injury like that would certainly impair training, and go...
To me, they always did look awfully short, so it wasn't a statistic I was inclined to question much. I figured his quickness was enhanced by his...
Gene Fullmer, like Mickey, was capable of turning boxer and stopped Basilio twice (although Carmen should have been allowed to finish their...
He did drop Tom in round 11 of their first bout and won, but Sharkey survived 20 rounds for the same reason Choynski and Ruhlin did with Jeff over...
Just about everybody knows how Ernst Roeber screwed up Jeff's left arm with a foolishly spontaneous bit of horseplay, when Jim raised it to...
In that final televised win of Fernandez's I saw, when he moved in, it was always behind the jab. Again, this was a boxer with a 59 inch reach,...
Lennox was at the top for barely a decade from Tucker in 1993 to Vitali in 2003. Holyfield beat Qawi over the championship distance in 1986, was...
For whatever it's worth, Mike used footage of Robinson as material for training and inspiration, and was utterly entranced by how Robby threw...
