Bokaj, you and PowerPuncher implied that Dempsey might have an issue with a top shelf LHW closer to his own weight, but the fact is that both...
In post #58, I mentioned that a retiring Don Quinn and sliding Willi Besmanoff were the best career long heavyweights Bob ever knocked out. Willi...
Like JQ and former MW Ellis, Jack would have Earnie in serious trouble from the beginning, and Shavers would not be granted a respite and...
It can be critical when considering that the peers were eyewitnesses, sparring partners and opponents of this old timers at their bests. Beyond...
Interesting question. The second half of Ali's double jab was often a backhand jar, flicked in by a straightening from the elbow following the...
Ron had a frustrating tendency to sometimes slug with sluggers and box with boxers. Luis was all about dropping down the hammer with that right...
The 6'2" 214 pound reigning 23(14)-1-2 European Champion Steffen Tangstad alone puts the heavyweight poleaxing resume of Michael Spinks over that...
No, Bob's something of a special case in that respect. We all know that he didn't just compete in the amateur ranks for the USAF, he was also a...
Former Foster pupil Doug Jones was 182 for Bob, decked his former coach in the opening round, then staggered him in rounds seven and eight when...
Arguello was a straight, sharp puncher who typically aimed at the sternum, so he'd be certain to land something. The best way to make him miss was...
RC, I checked this out, and it's not as many as one might think. 1)Mike McTigue 4X 2)Harry Greb 6X 3)Gene Tunney (the month after Greb I, at age...
During the progress of Jose Torres-Eddie Cotton, Carlos Ortiz was providing some guest commentary. He said that he was against the peek-a-boo, but...
Norton would never have been an easy fight for even the mythical Ali of 1968 and 1969. Muhammad may have been able to produce a clear cut UD, but...
Dempsey never called his straight left a "jab," terming it instead as a "jolt," disdaining the concept of "jabbing" in "Championship Fighting." He...
If that was true for Antuofermo-Hagler I, then what does that make SRL-Hagler?
