It seems that most of the replies so far are fixated on false punching and artificial distress. In the area of footwork though, few boxers have...
Most of the best have already been mentioned. "I can feint Louis into knots, but I'll do it your way." - Bob Pastor to his corner early in his...
I had long since stopped following boxing by the time he came along, but have always understood his power to have been highly regarded.
Chin makes the difference here. Tony could take Bob's best. The reverse isn't true. Bob would play the mobile cutie here, and try boxing his way...
For the purposes of this thread, are we to presume an actual match between them circa 1981-1983, as opposed to peak for peak, with a late 1970s...
I'm a big JQ fan, but have to acknowledge that this is a difficult match for him precisely because of the Big Cat's combination of reach, hand...
I would like to know the source for this. He wasn't hit solidly by Fitz, but did say that Ruby Robert missed a punch that, "hummed past like a...
How ironic, that his four best career showings were the only four that went the distance! W UD 10 Don Fullmer, W PTS 10 Sugar Ray Seales (a big...
The stylists who were able to compete with Dempsey for any extended period of time also had some degree of durability. Tommy Gibbons was only...
I think you hit upon something here. Hearns is a critical analogy. Robby actually resembled Tommy a bit in his earlier matches against more...
Sam came in at 180 for O'Brien in 1911, and in fact his ten pound weight advantage over Philly Jack was mentioned in reports. He was already...
Hagler and Antuofermo both said that Cyclone was the hardest puncher they were ever hit by, but Marv's interview which credited Hart was granted...
When he did have a defensive lapse, his chin more than made up for it. He was only stopped once, on cuts in the Cervantes rematch, a truly bogus...
That would be the February 1940 article titled, "The Time of Ruby Robert." Indeed it is a superb read. Intriguingly, Heinz omitted it from his...
In the first round, he broke Frank Allen's wrist with a blocked punch. Ring fatalities were extremely rare during the early gloved era. Even as...
