"...and if the man I bet with will come forward I'll be glad to meet him for the first time. " Very cleverly ironic turn of phase. This whole...
Wow, except for Douglas having the fastest hands (?) that might be the most plausible "best I've faced" list I've seen. Bruno and Lewis could...
Yeah, I'm 95% sure that's the one I'm thinking of, but when I scrolled through it I couldn't quickly find the really obvious part I remember,...
Yeah, but some respect to Haugen for saying after the fight "They must have been tough taxi drivers". Kind of like Bonavena's "I sorry I call you...
But what does it mean that old timers "tend" to do this? That it happens? Sure, but that's trivially true. Now if you're talking specifically...
Oh, and I should add really quick that although I cited Seamus as an example of the "modern" bias I perceive, he's nowhere NEAR as bad as the ****...
It was responsive as an illustrative example of the inverse bias I see, and perceive to be more common. It was not responsive to your query...
I would agree without hesitation. But I don't see that much.
That's descriptively false, as I for one have not come to such a realization. Also, the claim "the present su*ks - and that today's boxers can't...
Okay, I'll start with one that I take to be illustrative. Years ago before I joined this forum I saw thread in which James J Jeffries' 11 second...
Logic is primarily a tool to ensure that reasoning is internally consistent, and isn't much use in pattern recognition. I can give you individual...
I guess we're at an impasse, because I simply don't share that perception and there's no way to resolve it empirically.
Fred was a 1919 Golden Gloves champ.
Good guess, but I remember this fight being in color. I'm going through boxrec right now.
Do you have any reason to believe this other than your eye test? (I'm not saying this is a bad reason, just wondering if you have something I can...
