If we are considering the forties (1940-1949) rather than the technical decade definition (1941-1950, as there was no year zero) Baer was the #1...
I lot depends on criteria. Top five? Top Ten? I would lean toward the seventies. Top thirty? Top fifty? I would lean toward the forties....
With the interlude of WWII and the lack of film on almost anyone but the champions it is hard to judge. Hard to judge how tough Elmer Ray,...
Thompson fought Layne on August 8, 1950 Thompson KO'd Lee Q Murray on October 10, 1949 (6) Thompson KO'd Al Hart on November 18, 1949 (2)...
Mendoza "Vitali was recovering from surgery." "Vitali's first comeback fight was six weeks after Wlad defeated Byrd." Six weeks?! I...
"He owed half a million to the IRS. The only way he could make any money was fighting." He found out that the interest on what the owed the IRS...
"Layne's record against big punchers, even decent puncher is not very good is it?" He fought three of the Ring Magazine's top 100 all time...
I would say the 1940's were very much on par with earlier decades, and in my judgment tougher competitively because of the fall of the color...
"Whitlock was first mentioned by another" Okay. Fair enough. My only point is that being rated at light-heavy in 1948 (10) and 1949 (7) when...
"Vitali looked way more exhausted after 12 rounds of fighting Chisora." When he was 40. He was 28 fighting Byrd.
'Vitali injured his arm in either the 2nd or 3rd round." And waited until the 10th to quit? Seems odd to me. "I don't think it is ever...
You are the one who brought up Whitlock to trash him.
"Layne wasn't much, a Chris Arreola of the 50's." I just studied Arreola's record, and looking at the Ring yearly ratings printed at boxrec, the...
I came across an interview Byrd gave to Ryan Songalia in 2011, in which Byrd claims he sought a rematch with Vitali but was shifted to Wlad,...
"1940-1945" I was posting on the post-war era, the late forties, which I would consider 1946-1949. Obviously, during the war many of the top...
