That does raise an interesting question though. Would Vita have been able to win a first time match in a title fight over the championship...
Well, again, that's just it. Can Ray know enough to be that cautious and clever without first experiencing Duran's power, skill and saavy in an...
Thad Spencer.
Yes, and Sports Illustrated famously denounced Angelo Poletti's card as "a monument to indecision." I compared my own card with that of a dozen...
Fuji's nicknames were "Hammer Punch" and "Hammer Fist." There's no deception there, no pretense to style. He took most opponents out in four...
Within his stylistic limitations, Pipino was a pretty smart fighter. Although left hook oriented, he left it at home when taking on southpaw...
Lewis had 20 round stamina, was known to work inside furiously like a madman, and had a predilection for hammering the body, which could negate...
Some things to consider here. DeJesus was over six years younger than Buchanan. Ken had one match just after turning 30 in 1975, then took a four...
For Ray, the "perfect" condition always would have been a rematch, not a first time encounter. As I pointed out when this thread was created over...
Armstrong, Frazier, Duran, Dempsey, Greb.
Nine pages in, and I have to be the first to mention Chuck Wepner? Look at how the heavyweight Willie Pep makes that two footed klutz Ali miss a...
"Liston was a bully. Frazier was a bulldog."-Mutual Liston and Frazier corner man Milt Bailey, discussing the main difference between the two for...
See Weaver-LeDoux. Mike had the straight jab necessary to negate Trevor at range. Berbick did not have the power to trouble Hercules at that stage...
There's no known footage of it, but Ken reportedly did this at least three times in his early career, against Harold Dutra, Aaron Eastling and Vic...
He's very fond of pointing out that he was always purely a heavyweight from the get go, something true for very few heavyweight champions prior to...
