Also the Dave Whitlock who was ranked as the #10 light-heavyweight by The Ring in the 1948 yearly ratings, and ranked #7 in the 1949 rankings. He...
Charles against other heavyweight champions as a puncher in my judgment--to 1970-- Charles is a better puncher than Corbett Hart Burns...
Mendoza Thanks for the tape, but that was about the most successful franchises over a fifty year period, somewhat of a different issue. "I...
Fair enough. The consensus is what you state. But I didn't see it that way at all and I'm just giving my opinion. Vitali did throw a lot more...
"I think that score would be very much a minority opinion." It is. But I have to call it the way I see it. "Would you mind indicating which...
"Same thing happened after WWI" You consider the 1910's with the aging Johnson (a better fighter during the previous decade) and the not so...
And Leroy Haynes KO'd Carnera twice, and Lou Nova stopped Max Baer twice, and this tells us what about Joe Louis?
Mendoza "The linemen of the times could be bigger. I just see a huge difference in speed and skills from the players under 230 pounds." The...
Mendoza "Yes he was well behind on the cards and it would have been a near shutout if Vitali was healthy." "he" being Byrd One problem is I...
I pick him over all three, but "Vitali has a much easier time" I am not so certain. He certainly looked slow and cumbersome against Byrd,...
Just on Layne's condition--- Layne weight for his big wins from 1950 to 1952 from fightsrec.com Turkey Thompson--Layne weighed 194 Jersey...
"Shkor lost to all the better men he faced." He beat Tami Mauriello who was rated the #2 or #1 contender from 1942 to 1946, was rated the #1...
This post is off the wall, but how I look at this ahistorical point of view. Let's imagine the president of country X calling in his chief...
And any claims of historical greatness for Vitali have the same GIANT ASTERISK beside it. Losing is a weak claim for greatness.
I managed to find it on the internet. P-A-C-K-E-R---in slang refers to a man putting an artificial pe-is in his pants to create a bulge. Well,...