Okay. Let's agree to disagree. We just look at things differently. I said straight out that I accept your word that the story is out there....
I wanted to answer before reading any other posts. I think Louis' great right hand would decide this fight. Dempsey crossed his right over...
Okay, but I sincerely disagree with you. Record is not an opinion. Take Joe Louis. It is not opinion that he was champion for close to twelve...
I accept your word completely that the story is out there. That the story is TRUTH--I have some skepticism. Memories fail with old men. Did...
If this sort of thing cuts it for you, okay. I agree with Vince Lombardi. You do it or you don't. Excuses are for losers. If Fitz actually got...
Jeff also beat him in 1899. I just see Fitz as pretty clearly the most dangerous man out there and Jeff was the only guy who really beat him...
"Being good for his era doesn't equal all time great." I would say it a bit differently, but I judge it exactly the opposite. Being great in...
"Mendoza" I will try to remember to avoid mentioning him if replying to your thread. *my basic disagreement with you concerns the...
"what case has Janitor proved" That Fitz still had a lot left. I, at least, do not dispute that Jeff had a poor defense and there is no strong...
"softest underbelly the division ever presented." Oh, there have been a lot of soft underbellies and plenty were softer than the one Marciano...
Does Marciano perhaps deserve some credit for that? After all, Louis was fighting a man who never lost to anyone and made all sorts of opponents...
"Louis had really no business fighting Rocky." Well, if Walcott hadn't upset Charles, Louis would have been fighting Charles for the...
This could be self-serving on Dempsey's part, though. Kearns handled the money and the bet came from Dempsey's end. Dempsey admitting he knew...
"You keep trotting out these numbers, but do you honestly think Fitz was a shell? He was constantly moving on his feet throughout the fight,...
"Rickard did not match him against Harry Wills in an eliminator because he thought he was cr4p. He wanted Wills to lose." A very solid point,...
