It's certainly a widely held view. Nobody should view that footage without also watching Loughran-Walker for context however. Mickey was certainly...
He defeated Jack Sharkey, Max Baer and Jimmy Braddock, three of the five heavyweight champions between Tunney and Louis. At least one newspaper,...
Pastrano was a colorful and charismatic character, also appealing to the ladies. (My mother and grandmother enjoyed watching Willie.) Listening to...
Hagler would seem to be an exception to this rule of a large cranium as a prerequisite for punch resistance. He wasn't huge as middleweights go....
Gerry was even more far gone for Foreman than he was for Michael Spinks, yet he was able to nail George with that big hook in the opening round....
When I spotted this thread, I somehow had suspicion his name might come up. I don't think Ottke belongs in this discussion, LH. He never came...
A good hearty wine with that lunch is an absolute must for Vito as I see it, preferably a whole bottle to loosen his tongue. Corro did have...
Valdez seemed to age rapidly when the youth advantage he had over Briscoe was taken away. Also, Corro was an excellent boxer, with a quick jab and...
Did you see him take apart Chiaverini on NBC's Friday Night Fights? Tony took the fight right to Wilfred on the ropes, swinging away while Benitez...
Five best ever? It often seems to me that more ATGs have practiced countering than initiating. The first name that comes to my mind when...
Teddy Yarosz would be a strong candidate.
1974 was clearly his best year of that decade. Harry Carpenter wrote that the second match with Frazier was the first bout of his comeback where...
Meehan was stopped six times in 140 bouts, and not ever halted in a match scheduled for four rounds. He drew with a peak Miske immediately prior...
We never saw the real Kenty during his championship run. In his first televised match after O'Grady, he reverted from power stalker to his natural...
J, are you sure you're not referring to Bernstein's 1978 "Boxing for Beginners" for which Ken Norton wrote the introduction, posed on the cover,...
