I thought of that, but since MagnaNasakki specified, "exceeding what was expected of them," I didn't feel the Bomber could qualify. Chacon was...
I'm kind of reserved about the accounts of that one, as accounts vary according to whether or not it was Tommy's Philly partisans or sportswriters...
Rocky had 11 first round knockouts, including the rematch with Walcott (a doubly impressive flooring considering how Jersey Joe started their...
Well for starters, Mike was a front runner who never came from behind, or got up to win, like Jack did against Brennan, Sharkey and Firpo. Nor can...
"Conn makes more mistakes in a minute than Ramage makes in a whole fight." Gene was smarter than Billy was (an assessment Conn himself may well...
Since El Cholo has already been brought up, the devastated knockout victims here went on to later be acclaimed as the P4P best in the world. I was...
A real case can be made that Dempsey, Greb, Wills and Tommy Gibbons, all peaked during the previous decade, and that Tunney clearly was the best...
"Greb was crawling all over me," as Mickey put it in his autobiography, remains perhaps the most vivid sentence in my mind of what it was like to...
I don't recall Eddie taking a backwards step in this one, but a score of 9-1 in rounds for Snipes is similar to my subjective impression at the...
In fact, he was in the Guinness Book of World Records for decades as the oldest Olympic Boxing Champion, the only three time champion, and remains...
John Tate physically overpowered Weaver and smothered him against the ropes through 13 of 15 rounds, never letting Mike get set and affording him...
It would be interesting to see somebody try to make a case for Papp. Looking at his professional record, I just don't see it. "It is what it is,"...
No way does Foster belong over Loughran, who schooled Braddock and Max Baer, and avenged his stoppage defeats to Sharkey and Hamas. Bob never...
Dempsey at least did fight John Lester Johnson and George Christian on the way up, as Jeffries did Peter Jackson and Bob Armstrong, both were...
I thought Hearns was pretty classy in defeat. Tiger Flowers was unfailingly gracious, even when flagrantly robbed of decisions he clearly...
