For Dempsey to have taken on Langford when he's criticized for not having done so would have been sheer lunacy. (More like a Darwin Award type...
That opening paragraph was indeed the one most specifically cited in honoring Schmeling in his final years. He's well worthy of the appreciation,...
Prime for prime, Ali simply had his number. The speed advantage and effective use of reach is massively inequitable. Foreman couldn't get to his...
Joe had the skills, stamina, chin and mobility to take Gerry late and drown him. Bugner came off the floor to buckle Frazier with a right, needed...
Eddie's primary contribution that I'm aware of was to get Larry to stop telegraphing his right. Previously, Holmes lifted his left leg before...
When the story of his passing broke in the United States, the late Peter Jennings concluded his World News Tonight broadcast on ABC with that...
:lol:Prime, if you did so merely because of what I said, you'd have ought to be smacked upside the head. (As I also should be, just for agreeing...
Pretty much how I feel. This is somebody seemingly very passionate in the opinions expressed, which boxing needs more than former fans like me...
It was by far the most effective single punch I saw Cummings land in competition. (I also watched the entirety of Frazier-Cummings and...
The ending of Foreman-Chuvalo will be debated as long as there are fans of the sport. My view is that Chuvalo was occasionally punching back in...
Frank was knocked silly by a single right hand from Cummings just at the bell ending the opening round. Nobody did this to a prime Shavers with...
Peralta demonstrated twice that Tunney would not have been too small to compete with Foreman and extend him. Given the maximum 24 foot ring,...
In Dempsey's 1976 autobiography, there's a photograph of him standing beside Frazier during Jack's 75th birthday celebration, with Tunney standing...
I haven't been able to relocate the old magazine with that article for years. It's not the sort of thing I would ever throw out, but maybe a...
First of all, I am not Leroy Caldwell, I am quoting Leroy Caldwell. He did say Shavers hit harder than Foreman and Lyle combined, and he did...
