On the Moore-Valdes fight, I did find it a bit much from the poster who implied this fight was not on the level. Just me, but I find that a...
"eye of the beholder" I just quoted Fleischer on the fight. "Didn't you crab about using words." Yes. But I certainly agree with...
I shouldn't step in, but off the primary source listed by McVey, there is no indication what the final vote was. It merely says it was even going...
Matthews fought a lot in the northwest, but the fight with Don C was his biggest gate by far out there. All this doesn't deal with Valdes and...
Well, in 1939 Joe Louis defended against Jack Roper in LA--gate $87,000 in 1949 Ezzard Charles defended against local hero Pat Valentino in...
"Valdes was a bigger draw" If Liebling's stats are correct, 4500 attendance for a fight between top heavyweight contenders isn't very...
Well, there is no evidence Valdes was a draw either. A J Liebling's coverage of the Valdes-Jackson fight has this line-- "The show had drawn...
except Marciano did fight Joe Louis
Just on the relative sizes of Louis and Valdes. Fightsrec does give the weights for fights. Most of Valdes' early weights are apparently not...
"I didn't see it" But you have spent post after post blathering on about why you think it was a bad decision. I wouldn't question the...
Sorry. I had the word "name" in my post also, so I jumped to the wrong conclusion this had something to do with my post. Just confused, as usual.
What about Ali? Not even top 20? Few heavyweights stopped as many good men.
Bottom line seems to be something like this-- Everybody thinks Moore was the most qualified challenger. Everybody thinks Valdes was more...
interesting.
interesting opinion.
