By all accounts, Pascual Perez was generally recognized as the WORLD FLYWEIGHT CHAMPION from 1956 to 1960. You raise a valid point about the...
I'm not an expert on flyweights (or anything else for that matter), but during his day Pascual (Pascal??) Perez was thought to be the heaviest...
I know it's tough road, but I've known a few people who have held down two full-time jobs!! I guess we are engaged in a battle of semantics,...
Eddie Cotton was a Boeing tool and dye maker for almost all of his 21-year boxing career. He was the No. 1 light-heavyweight contender for several...
I agree. I know this is an old thread, but there seems to be a lot of talk on other threads in this forum these days (October 2019) about how...
I think it's a matter of style and size. Baer was bigger and his round-house right hand would always be a problem for Max S. This assumes Baer...
I agree, but even the points you raise add to the buzz and lead to further discussions. There are differing opinions about who looks good and who...
A major reason is that boxing has films like no other sport has. You can't look at films of baseball, basketball, football, etc. prior to 1960 and...
The film of Mickey's second fight with Ace Hudkins also shows Walker backing up for the entire fight while giving Hudkins a licking.
That may be, but Floyd wanted to prove himself a worthy champion. D'Amato's protectiveness became a point of dissension between the two men....
I agree entirely except I would rate Williams as better than London and he had the power to stop Patterson if he landed. Patterson was intimidated...
I guess what you must mean is that the Liston of '59 to '62 could beat the Ali of '65 to '68? All I can say is, "good luck."
I'm confused. Clay was nowhere near the light-heavyweight limit in 1965.
In answer to the main question posed by this thread, the past is so much more understandable than the alphabet slop we have today.
The film of Steele's fight with Lesnevich is as impressive as the Dundee fight [MEDIA]
