Growing up, he reportedly got hammered by resentful older sparring partners. Fans often wonder how somebody with his defensive skills wound up so...
:roflOh Gawd! Diane Bobick it is! (What'll Holmes say if he finds out he lost the Olympic trials to a girl? What will the US Navy say when they...
Also, it must be remembered that Floyd himself made the decision to defend against Liston in 1962. In his own mind, he may well have felt it was...
Hearns did state prior to SRL-Hagler that Ray was the harder puncher. Duran has been quoted as also indicating this. (He said immediately after...
I think Max would be the one who succeeds in inducing his counter punching preference between these two masters at it. He was also capable of...
Like Arthur Mercante, I had a left arm impaired Holmes winning eight of the first ten rounds over an aging Norton. Stop that match after ten...
I think the uppercut Ray clipped Wilfred to his knees with in round 15 did hurt him, and SRL knew it. Had it happened near the outset of the...
Tommy was legitimately world class, while Henry never rose above the British and European level. Neither had a great chin, but Morrison did stand...
One thing Duran clearly did better than Benitez was take a punch (when he was in reasonable shape and not partying as he did prior to Hearns)....
Sounds something like Ted Lowry, Bob Stallings, George Chaplin and Leroy Caldwell. (Leroy did have some televised wins during an excellent five...
Ocasio and DeLeon were the first cruiserweight champions of substance. For Jaws, this was after he got the better of Young twice, and Dokes in...
After New Orleans, Flash Gordon called him the "Eight Million Dollar Tanker" (a wry reference to "The Six Million Dollar Man" which was such a...
Clearly Wald, and this coming from somebody who's never seen him fight and doesn't follow boxing anymore. But the fact is that this is somebody...
The cruiser class should be ditched. Even the light heavyweight title took a long time to be fully accepted, but the fact is that former light...
Maurice Hope was having early success with Benitez behind his right jab, then got away from it. Hagler wouldn't have made the same mistake....
