The only scheduled 45 rounder of Sam's career was Fireman Flynn III on Saint Patrick's Day, 1910. He had just turned 27, and was auditioning for...
Shavers is naturally the definitive answer here. Morrison might be argued to fit the bill. He only had six wins over the distance, but in four of...
Does the Quarry family have anything to say about this?
It took Jerry Quarry 59 punches to finally put Earnie down. Lyle blasted Shavers with bombs for five rounds before finally landing him in the...
Mickey made no mention of anything like this in his autobiography, and it seems like too colorful an anecdote for him not to relate if true....
Ziggy Pietrzykowski was already a very accomplished 25 year old amateur LHW when Clay whitewashed him in Rome. He'd gotten to young Cassius...
Because we'll never have film of him from 1919, or any competition footage at all which was shot by a motorized camera, we can only go by...
Ray Mancini's 12 round shutout of Ramirez was one of the more startling ones over the last 50 years. Jose had decked Arguello and contested him...
Marciano's gut was described by some as being smaller than Ali's when they met for Wororner's staged match. Rocky trained diligently for his role,...
Arguello did this with some frequency, to Tam, Limon, Navarrete, Boza Edwards and Watt. Busceme, Ganigan and Ramirez were other southpaws he...
For this reason, I also thought of Frazier and Langford along with Greb. Any ATG with compromised eyesight deserves mention with respect to mental...
Tommy noticeably buckled under SRL's body assault in their first match, and Hagler's body attack had something to do with Hearns gassing so...
The final bout where Louis came in under 200 pounds at full strength was the rematch with Godoy. Joe, never taking a step forward, beat the ****...
Ali stopped Wepner and Bonavena in round 15, came close to stopping Shavers in the final stanza, and Carlos Padilla has said he would have stopped...
With the benefit of hindsight, I think Shavers finished him as a championship caliber heavyweight. His timing, coordination and reflexes never...
