They hated one another at the time. Add that hatred to the heat of the battle and that's how it escalated so far.
Have you seen the picture of Pep's eye after the second fight, which he, by the way, won by a 15-round decision? It is the most grotesque picture...
The Robinson-Giardello outcome wasn't an upset. Ray was 42 years old. People were already urging him to retire.
You don't really specify a time frame here. The Robinson who won the middleweight title from Jake LaMotta in 1951 would have been too much for the...
Al or Joe Brown? Or both?
Leonard came up at a time when fighters still fought for world championships rather than for alphabetic belts. I think Ray actually held some...
You're right. I think I do too. We have pretty much the same approach here, I think, but as they say the devil's in the details.
I'd say Holyfield was bigger and stronger largely because he was more roided up. That's the thing that bothers me most about all these comparisons...
Sands looks like he came out of the womb fighting. So natural, so loose and relaxed. He just flows. Kind of reminds me of Duran in that regard....
My recollection after watching the Mina-Hank fight ten years ago or so is that Mina was trying to show the New York reporters what a good boxer he...
Dominating a single weight class as undisputed champion and defending it against top contenders is far more impressive to me than jumping up to...
Yes, one trick pony is a perfect description of Johansson.
"Indian sign" was once a commonly used figure of speech meaning something like "I've got that guy's number" as with a magic spell that puts one...
Ingo had a way of sticking out a lazy left jab and lulling his opponents into complacency, and then BOOM!!!, he'd let go of the "Toonder" in his...
Sharkey's statement might be construed as condescending to black people, but in the context of what many white people were thinking and saying...
