Carlos Ortiz first became world champ at light welterweight - after which he moved down and captured the lightweight title. And of course Henry...
No, of course you wouldn't! I mean, if you think he would lose to Corbett (LOL), it would be hard to pick him over Marciano.
Yeah, that's the problem - for some reason they don't include newspaper decisions in the KO%. Which in many cases results in some strange numbers....
I don't know, why I didn't notice, when you posted this last year… but several of those old-timer KO percentages are way off. Tommy Gibbons 77,...
How about the 50s, Marciano's decade? Do you think Ortiz would be out of his depth back then, and unable to secure a Top-10 ranking?
Ewart Potgeiter vs James J Parker 18" (94-76) Henry Akinwande vs Orlin Norris 16" (86-70)
Me too… especially the one-sidedness of the scoring. That 117-111 card is really hard to swallow!
Ryder vs Smith
Fantastic effort by Ryder!
Honest mistake, no harm done.
Graham beat Kalule in the amateurs??
I feel the exact opposite is the case. Nearly all boxers/trainers/journalists will say whatever it takes to make themselves, or their era, look...
I thought Corrales-Castillo I was rather exciting. If we're talking pure non-stop action, Sithchatchaval-Monshipour will be hard to top. And...
Were there really more high-action slugfests in the old days? Or do we just like to think there were - because what we today can study of the...
I think many of the top old-timers from boxing's "Golden Age" (1920s), hit much harder than their very modest KO percentages suggest. Either...
