Equating 6-0 Spinks win over a corpse Ali with the overall competition of the 70s is exactly the proper intellectual level that you need to put a...
Over 1200 boxers are rated with a mean of 224lb, I think the data is correct.
Yep you might be right about the current divsion, even if some of the mentioned are not that trimmed.
Bruno vs Lewis. I saw that fight on Youtube and didn´t knew the outcome back then. I couldn´t trust my eyes, but Bruno was beating him up badly...
The avarage weight of Marciano, his opponents and their opposition was 185 pounds! Guessing the variation of that mean, real trimmed 200lb+...
The weight difference between the 50s and the 70s is bigger than between the 70s and Klitschkos era. In other words: Who do you see beating...
He was indeed good in his early years. Then when he stepped up in the division....
They were no heavyweights, they were mostly 190lb Cruisers, some made 200. Leon Spinks of the Ali fights would be in the top ten of the 50s...
The one with D’Amato? He doesn´t look jelly here http://www.gamingzion.com/gamblingnews/mike-tyson-potentially-the-greatest-of-all-time-part1-7117
Vitali won´t go anywhere when Frazier hits him. Vitali has a very high KO-ratio, but not against the best opposition. But good enough for me to...
The only surprising thing here (which has nothing to do with PED) is how inaccurate and sloppy Marciano is picking his shots until he finally...
Nothing. The contenders in all eras were equally good, since boxing was always the same. Stop neglecting the holy dogma of the classics....
Ok now i get what you mean. 5) Exactly. There is certainly a problem "out there in the web" with mesomorph = muscular type. There is also the...
What´s the problem? Me and HerolGee both agreed that BMI is easy to use in therms of simplicity. Same goes for morphology, which is widely used...
I see it coming down with a good analysis in how durable young Ali really was (and we might still not know it) and how many rounds they fought.