Yeah, I know. I was talking about during his title reign - he was happy to stay where he was in the UK and defend against pretty weak opposition...
Cobra, you’re completely right. I mean, I respect Collins for taking on fighters in the US like McCallum, Reggie Johnson and Kalambay. To be fair...
I consider that era of early 90s middleweights my boxing fan apprenticeship. It wasn’t until a few years later that I started following what was...
Tyson was a loose cannon at that point. Trouble would have found him one way or another.
Yep, this sums it up. It’s either Charles on points or Tua by KO.
Could: Barney Ross Antonio Cervantes Aaron Pryor Would: Jose Napoles Roberto Duran (if he wanted to fight at that weight)
Bingo.
I grew up as a boxing fan in the 1990s, from about 1993 onwards, but I always harked back to the previous era of ‘80s fighters - there was...
Exactly. I don’t belittle other people’s scorecards because there’s always room for interpretation. If Sal and Scar scored Norton-Ali 3 a draw, it...
Best Supporting Actor in Rocky?
Superb choices, D!
Two of the three judges had the third fight for Ali so he must have been doing something right in their eyes and the fact that you both had it a...
His killer instinct went after the Watson fight. That’s why he had so many horrible narrow points wins, just doing enough to win but trying not to...
Oh yeah, it’s a top fight from a skill point of view no doubt but not quite as action packed as some of the other Mexican classics. It’s a really...
Very good fight. Oscar was stung by the criticism he received in his defeat to Tito and wanted to show everyone he wasn’t a runner so he stood and...
