It is totally untrue that Walcott dropped Louis in training.
A journeyman is a guy who knows how to fight. As simple and as complex as that. It's a feeling boxing people have about a fighter.
If by "slick." you mean fleet-footed hit-and-run artists, then Pep obviously was in a class by himself. Of those who tried, Ralph Dupas, Del...
Durocher
Ah c'mon man, you know a lot more than that!
Mark, Your concept of "slick" and mine differ. Obviously, a matter of definition.
What about Ray Robinson, Jose Napoles, Joe Brown, Carlos Ortiz, Tony Canzoneri, Lou Ambers, Barney Ross, Luis Rodriguez, Harold Johnson, Eder...
Harry Greb, Yaqui Lopez, Bennie Briscoe, Gaspar Ortega, Denny Moyer
Billy Petrolle
I think the speed and size of the young Ali would be too much for Louis. The post-exile Ali is another matter. If Ali ever started trading punches...
And never the twains shall meet.
Quarry without question. Bivins has always been a puzzle to me, largely because by the time he was caught on film in the late 1940s and early...
What if? I wouldn't believe you, that's what. At least not with post-1940 strictly enforced boxing rules.
Not that this adds anything to what you have said, but I've watched a lot of Moore film again and again over the years, and I agree with you 100...
I'm conjecturing here, obviously, but the fight was probably made on the spur of the moment by a local promoter and Johnson figured he could use...
