The question is at what weight was Pep the best. He was best at featherweight. Matching him in an imaginary fight against an all-time great who...
Chavez was a great fighter. Pep was a featherweight and not a super-featherweight, so the whole premise of this thread is not a fair question. I...
I think most of his amateur bouts or "matches," if you will, were at his gentleman's club in San Francisco. That he went as far as he did says a...
I don't know that I hate the Modernist versus Classic debates, but sometimes they can border on the ridiculous. That is my perspective anyway. In...
Joe Louis was only a one-time champion -- but for 11 years!
Agreed, but I don't believe he would have chosen to fight Quarry this way. Unlike Jerry, Ringo always seemed to choose the style which would give...
He was always obnoxious. He knew next to nothing about boxing and didn't care. He had a script to follow and if the action didn't fit, he was the...
Man, this is a difficult one to call. I usually can manufacture some type of an opinion that favors one fighter over another, but these guys'...
I'd really need some firm information about their physical measurements. Pound-for-pound, I would favor Burns. If he's outweighed by 20 pounds or...
The only sense that the third Moore-Maxim made was that Jack Kearns had an interest in both fighters.
I don't see Corbett as in the top 250, but I give him his due as an important pioneer worthy of our gratitude and respect.
Hogan (Kid) Bassey without a doubt.
Thanks for researching further.
I'm a little bit confused by this posting and by what you meant by your comment. The Courier was Pittsburgh's African-American newspaper, so it is...
Was Shavers really bald or did he just shave his head. He had a full head of hair when he fought Stan (the Animal) Johnson in 1969. I haven't read...
