Nobody asks how things would have been if Ali retired after Evangelista. In class the next day, many of us who saw Ali-Shavers thought Earnie...
Walcott was beating the **** of him in their first match, yet I was hard pressed to find instances of Jersey Joe's power knocking him backwards....
After the way Lyle had just been schooled by Young, and earlier, Jerry Quarry, Ron had no business competing with Muhammad the way he was. For one...
In the slow motion replay of the footage, I always look at the way the rear of Liston's cranium sharply whiplashes back when Ali's right connects....
Also the rubber match with Norton in Yankee Stadium, a bout today widely acknowledged by youtube viewers to have been fairly won by Ali (or lost...
Ali held onto the WBA Title for a year after regaining it from Leon Spinks. Presumably, he'd have likewise mothballed his newly reacquired...
Foreman would run up steep hills and mountains during his comeback at an extremely slow pace, but reportedly for up to two hours at a time....
For what Joe Gould did for Jimmy Braddock, he belongs in the IBHOF. After Braddock retired, they were even commissioned together into the US Army...
Jerry Quarry certainly dusted off Bodell with a single right hand (remarkable, considering he was better known for his hook), and was trigger...
Marcel was on the nominee ballot for the IBHOF this year. Next year, careful evaluation of available footage by the voters could well tip the...
I've always contended that Hercules was feigning distress against the ropes when he lowered the boom with that hook, an assertion which has been...
Tunney-Heeney lost money. Gene might have stuck around for a lucrative Dempsey III, but Jack remarkably nixed it in favor of preserving his...
They all have the skill and stamina to outpoint the often wild Pryor, making him miss and pay. Banking everything on a knockout like Arguello did...
So do I In their first match, Marciano actually spent more time with his back to the ropes than Charles did. (There's a photograph of Rocky...
Most would agree with this. A mature and sensible approach, to be sure, but if the measured restraint you seem to advocate in favor of strictly...
