December 20, 1913 in Paris. Carpentier is introduced to the audience, and Jeannette would hand Carp his final defeat prior to Dempsey in March of...
Floyd was approaching 32 when Henry Cooper rated his hand speed as superior to that of a peak Ali, who Cooper was coming off his rematch loss to....
Jeannette was no powder puff puncher with his 68 knockout wins, but Sam makes him look like one in Paris. Wills had to wait until Langford was...
Sure, Bob had those qualities, but he also had a mobility limitation Jack Palance noted during the live broadcast of Mike Quarry's beheading. His...
Qawi was a phenomenal defensive fighter. (How else do you suppose he could get away with using his mouth to breathe all those years without...
No, Frazier wasn't mentally beat by Foreman, but before Kingston, with the chip off his shoulder following the FOTC. He had nothing left to prove,...
Sam weighed around 200 pounds for his filmed 20 round win over Jeanette in Paris which we've all watched. He was absolutely a heavyweight. Joe...
Surprised Jerry never went after Bob for what happened to Mike. JQ vs BFoster might've sold better than Ali-BFoster did, but wouldn't have lasted...
Sam is recorded as coming in at 166 for Jim Barry two weeks prior to Ketchel, and Barry was Langford's only bout between his filmed eighth round...
Let's not forget his lawsuit inducing flattery of Perez after Wepner either. Ali certainly didn't like it much when it was the back of his neck...
I think heart and toughness does it for Tony here, over Bert ("My head is buzzing" against Foreman). Two Ton came off the deck to return the favor...
When Archie Moore reviewed Kinshasa years later, he said on camera that Ali's neck holding tactic was the specific reason Foreman wore down to the...
I wonder if Perez allowed that holding as penance for his ridiculous blunder in prematurely halting the action during round two with Joe having...
Joe Namath: Three winning seasons in 12 years. Possibly the first QB in history to be enshrined in Canton with a losing record. Johnny Unitas:...
Dempsey weighed 236 when he undertook training for Tommy Gibbons, the exact same weight Louis topped out at while in the US Army. (He was hardly...
