This thread from just over a week ago contains some discussion of Max versus George. (I make my case for Max on page two, in posts #17 and #28):...
Norton, Lyle, Young, Ali and Leroy Caldwell all rated Shavers as the hardest puncher they were ever hit by. If a common opponent of Foreman and...
Liston didn't share the speed of Schmeling or Sharkey. This might be more interesting than most take for granted.
Leroy Haley was also known for celebratory gymnastics after winning a big match, clearing the ring from corner to corner so he could execute his...
Fireman Flynn had never - repeat -- NEVER, stopped any opponent in the first round until Dempsey! Jack never attempted a punch. Dempsey had over...
Too slow, too fat, too easy to hit, too big a target to miss. Golota proved that Bowe couldn't take it downstairs. Sharkey proved that Dempsey...
Excellent work! I especially like the surprising left hook knockdowns at 1:46 and 1:59, something one wouldn't typically think of Gerrie as being...
Walker very freely admitted carrying opponents during his career. King Levinski went 30 rounds with Max Baer in official competition, but later...
Gerrie's mobility and boxing skills are overshadowed by his right hand, but he boxed Pinklon Thomas to a stalemate in a sub par performance, and...
This is the difference between a good and great fighter. Floyd, especially by the time of the Chuvalo fight, was a resilient, intelligent,...
Six of one, half a dozen of the other. The trio of surgeries on his right hand, and "corrective items" implanted into it, are what led to it being...
I agree with the apparent consensus that there is a distinction between who the greatest heavyweight was, and who the best champion was. As it has...
Jimmy was tough as nails, and he carried power not shared by a fading Ali. If a knockdown or stoppage were to be produced, it would much more...
Philip Coetzee was a negaholic jerk, whose characteristic pessimism gutted his son's self confidence, and everybody knew that during Gerrie's...
Two high profile knockdown punches does not a slugger make. Russ, you had to have seen Renaldo at the time he took on Cummings, Mustafa Muhammad...
