Renaldo was resilient and not easily dissuaded. Whatever Baby Joe would be able to put on him early would not make him go into a shell or switch...
Marvis had a fine amateur pedigree. Won a world junior championship. Went 44-0 before losing to Tony Tubbs, himself an outstanding world-class...
Renaldo swam in deeper waters and held his own with some bigger fishes than Baby Joe. He went 2-3 vs. 1980s heavyweight titleholders (beat...
I’m the same way with Austria and Australia … like prove to me those are different countries! And don’t even get me started on Switzerland and...
Sure, but the devil is always in the details. One can say ‘no, of course I don’t think every single loss was a handcuff or fix,’ but when you say...
Where do you live? It’s in no way geographically in the South, so I’m wondering where that comes from. You couldn’t find sweet tea or grits there...
Posted elsewhere about this: Holmes put on one of the most courageous performances I’ve ever witnessed. We later learned that his jaw had...
I’d consider it to be in the Midwest. I mean, it’s on a line between the rust belt states like Ohio and Illinois and Kansas, which is a plains...
I’m also in the quandary of how can you rate someone if the losses don’t count? I mean, if we go with the (very likely true) theory that he had...
He wasn’t from the South, and apart from a short stint in Memphis never practiced professionally there. So the nickname seems out of place.
That was huge in the U.S. Basically everybody watched the Olympics, and they were featured prominently … heroes. Boxing was popular but that...
I went to a pro show this past weekend and it was like a reunion. Two guys who fought for me are on the commission. Got to catch up with four...
There have been a few clown princes in boxing: Ray “Windmill” White, a California light heavy, and Battling Bozo, same division out of Alabama in...
I liked Michael Spinks more than Leon before it was fashionable. Watching Michael coming up, damn, he was so advanced so early. Leon was of...
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