I love Dick Tiger. I love the middleweight division as it existed in the '50s and '60s. To have competed and won the title during that era is...
Yes, your appellation is more descriptive!
Attell comes from the era when most fighters fought in a "wait and see" style. Nelson would not allow Attell to wait or see. Azumah would keep on...
What a wonderful document, black, white, or purple.
I take Canzie. Too much foot movement, speed, and ring craft. He also took a pretty good punch. Williams advantage would be greater strength. He...
This is a really convincing post. Pretty definitive.
Except for Harold Johnson, the light-heavyweight division was exceedingly weak in 1958, IMO.
I have to say that I do hold it against fighters when I judge their abilities and accomplishments more than some posters when the fighters use...
Ray Arcel in color, too.
Don't know how you can even begin this conversation without thinking of Gene Fullmer. He and Saddler get my vote.
Bimstein was also the American trainer of Ingemar Johannsson. I am not sure when he started with Ingo, but he was in Ingo's corner for the Eddie...
I agree. I didn't know Layne was rated that highly in the vast panoply of great heavyweights.
Whoa! You are a tough guy.
What is the deal on LaMotta cutting? He had tough skin and he was never stopped on a cut in his life.
George likes to tell a good story!
