Seen the Bobby Dykes-Ray Robinson fight? Good example of a bear-prime Robinson and Dykes showed himself very capable, if outclassed.
This is where I meant to post my writeup of it from the other day. Gavilan in all his glory against a super-tough journeyman who would be...
Sorry, disregard. William's writeup on this was a few pages back apparently. No longer germane.
William, here's what I had this fight at, from a few pages back. Nice upload!
Fighters as divisive as Leonard tend to draw the hyperbole out a bit.
Two years and five or six fights suddenly turns you into an ATG? Not buying that.
That argument is tenuous. Nelson had but a handful of fights between the Sanchez bout and his eventual title-winning effort against Gomez. How...
Love this fight. Hagler was damn near perfect as you say, and Hamsho was tough to the point of taking 55 stitches for his efforts. He must have...
If you give a starving man rotten meat he'll eat it because that's all he has. It'll probably seem like a great meal at the time but.......
The fight was nothing like Holmes-Shavers. Shavers is something like Wilder, but Fury is a stylistic train wreck. He just makes himself...
Such claims are usually sour grapes, but seeing this fight I do believe his claim. He didn't seem like the same guy.
Emile Griffith TKO12 Gaspar Ortega I'd long been curious about this fight, and wondered how a relatively light puncher with a counter-punching...
Dogged determination got him there. Exceedingly intelligent on many levels, he might not have been the spectacular athlete others were, but he...
Never had an issue with it personally. How many times has someone tasted canvas three times in a round and come back to win? I'm sure it's...
I see it exactly the opposite. For all his aggression, Lockridge was wide with all his shots, everything was over the top or from the sides....
