He is 6 ft 1 and was 32-1 at WW. If you're looking at your top 10 as a WW P4P list Hearns belongs nowhere near there but H2H hes a monster at WW....
Survivors bias. Someone who wins nearly ever fight whose not really knowlegable on animals is going to think they can outbox anything. Back then...
This is not close enough where this amendment matters. Alis still got Holmes in terms of both quantity and quality.
Louis honestly doesn't even need these things. The ego of the modern sports fan is absurd as it pertains to comparing their present day heros to...
Probably Hunter because hes probably already peaked and some of the cruiseys might have expected him to make noise. Does anyone expect Gassiev to...
Hes not even in the top 800 if we go by the academic definition. Even if we look at HW historically his feats mean very little compared to guys...
Against Louis? No.
Its funny I think Conns overrated at 175 and put quite a few LHWs from the early 20th century above him. But almost none of those LHWs I'd expect...
Yes, Robinson flew too close to the sun.
No. I mean the WBC and WBA were already setting up regional affiliates for all these regions. But its one thing to set up infrastructure around...
Loughran might have the best durability track record of any 175er ever against HWs and superheavys. He survived Max Baer, Braddock, Farr, Carnera...
During the mid to late 20th century boxing was dominated by Americans. The WBC was founded by all the NBAs rivals to counterbalance this but...
Very good. Since Archie Moore, RJJ, Spinks, Moorer and Toney are the only 175ers to win a HW belt. Spinks and Moorer were 6' 2. RJJ shutout Toney...
Whether a given belt was considered subordinate depended on how unification bouts turned out. These titles were only considered equal in the...
Beating Garcia made him an NABF champion which was traditionally a pipeline for title shots.
