He had zero chance of once again becoming champion. He wasn't beating Ali and Liston and was highly unlikely to beat Floyd Patterson in any...
Who says it's a mismatch??
Mike Tyson is one of those heavies that would be death to any light heavyweight. Spinks was a top 3 ATG light heavyweight, one of the best...
Correct. If Spinks and Tyson never fought, there would be those to this day who would say Spinks outboxes Tyson and would die on that hill.
Is this the Foreman/Frazier like blowout that we all envision or could Rocky withstand the punishment and come back to win? I lean towards AJ, but...
You really think he beats Harry Matthews??
Holyfield comes in at 205 pounds, the weight he was in the Bowe 1 fight and Spinks comes in at 208 pounds, the weight he was in the Cooney fight.
If AJ couldn't just blow Marciano out and his chin was much more sturdier than we would think against hard hitting super heavies, then I could see...
Who, besides Liston, would you say takes him?
That's why we have to use our imagination. I mean, we could say the same about Marciano in the 90s. We can ask who wins between Lewis and...
How old was Johnson in that film?
Sultan Ibragimov would be the Sultan of nap time when Liston gets through with him.
Even Patterson and Marciano?
I'm proud to say I didn't sign up to watch that farce.
Would that have given him the edge he needed to hang in the modern day heavyweight division?