So the early part of the 20th century, with very little (if any at all!) boxing in places like Mexico, Nicaragua, Argentina, Africa, Japan,...
You think he destroys Inoue?
I have: 68 - Leonel Hernandez 60 - Pierre Fourie 60 - Rocky Juarez 57 - Victor Polo 57 - Santos Cardona
I call your 63… and raise with a 68.
Philadelphia Jack O'Brien
Yeah... if only it were this easy! But people see what they want to see - and often opinions are so far apart, that no consensus will ever be...
When evaluating a boxer we have never seen, who was active 130+ years ago - shouldn't we be careful, how we interpret the written word of the...
So if Arguello's natural walking weight was 140 lbs, he would be fighting at that weight, or higher - and could never fight at lightweight, as his...
Yes, that's a bit clearer. I get what you mean now. But if a full grown Arguello's walking weight was 140 lbs - why would it be impossible for...
This is your claim, that I responded to in my first post: "Arguello would NEVER have been a Lightweight in those Era's, same day weigh - in" To...
I'm not quite sure, what you're saying here? The fighters back then who weighed in at the same weight, would also (generally speaking) be very...
Arguello was a naturally thin guy, who didn't balloon up in weight between fights (like, for example, Duran). Back in Canzoneri's day, with a...
Arguello fought lots of same day weigh-in world title fights at 126 and 130... so why would it have been impossible for him to make 135 back in...
He had? How do we know this? We're dealing with someone, who fought 100 years ago, that no one here has seen even a glimpse of - and we are to...
I'm not sure, if you're being serious? None of those guys fought anything like Byrd. They may have been good boxers - but they didn't have Byrd's...
