I can also think of a case of the opposite: In one of Ali's fights against a lesser known opponent, some time around 1975 (the opponent was a...
I don't know about cruelty, but I can think of several fights where I wonder why the hell the winner continued to pummel an obviously defenseless...
I'm about 70% confident in Vitali here but this is a fight where anything could happen.
Old timers are a subset of the broader population, and I'm not even convinced it's more common among them.
The inverse of this bias is far more common, and far less often acknowledged.
I'm having a hard time seeing who you're satirizing here. Is there anyone at all who would have any difficulty compiling a list of "unshredded"...
Yeah, and I'd add that although there is obviously some loose correlation between strength and punching power, it seems safe to say they're...
Almost no one ever thinks they have an agenda.
This why I don't often come to the general section. You're morons.
There's a putative photo of John L Sullivan on Getty images that is clearly an actor in some kind of Hollywood publicity still -but oddly enough...
It's battling Jim Johnson.
In 1952 you could have made an equally strong argument - for exactly the same reasons -that heavyweights were getting smaller and no 220 pound oaf...
After a short, intense slugfest, George brutally knocks out George in the second round, to the cheers and horror of his sons George, George,...
Oh, if I may offer a few counterexamples to the legitimate (and rather hilarious) ones you named: Mcvey is a very knowledgeable commenter...
My dad only has a high school education, and he understands me okay. You probably do too. My verbiage isn't as complicated as it might sound.