It bears reminding here that Jake was originally a southpaw, and known to occasionally switch to that stance, as he does on film late in his...
LaMotta may never die. First of all heaven doesn't want him. Second, Satan is afraid of getting his ass kicked out of his house and home by Jake,...
Pryor tended to be a chin up wide open headhunter at times. Against a defensively skilled body punching specialist like Duran, this really doesn't...
Hopkins knocked Oscar out by bypassing his chin, and John's body shots left Hagler pissing blood. This is an extremely dangerous prospect for a...
Mike Weaver is an excellent pianist. Matthew Saad Muhammad is also reported to be, but I've never seen footage of him playing the piano as I have...
Benitez's upper body was a perpetual herky jerky motion machine. He was perfectly capable of applying lateral mobility and able to match foot...
P4P there's no contest. Greb was a natural middleweight until the end of his career, while Langford was a 200 pounder at least as early as 1913....
Yes, and while I assumed that some experience with sparring had already taken place, if not, details like knowing how one will take a punch or...
Louis listened to advice from the sportswriters who urged him to come in light for speed, over Jack Blackburn's warnings that Joe would weaken...
Saoul Mamby ironically also produced a number of big wins after turning 40 largely on the strength of superior conditioning. He retired Gary...
Mickey Walker was faced with the prospect of a match with both Louis and Dempsey during his career. While he expressed some willingness to take on...
On face value alone, I'd go for it while I still can, rather than wondering about what might have been for the rest of my life. Are you...
Joe's father, Monroe Barrow, was a hardworking sharecropper born ca 1879 in Alabama. Committed to a mental institution in 1916, he died on...
And Kenty unseated Duran's WBA successor Ernesto Espana, who looked lethal in getting off the floor to fracture Johnny Lira's jaw with his left...
1974 Ali was the fastest and best version of Muhammad during that decade. He was compelled to apply the rope a dope in Kinshasa due to special...
