At that early stage of his career though, Floyd still weighed well under 170 pounds, lost (albeit controversially) to Maxim, and Ali still had...
He was never adverse to giving away body shots, but he sustained repeated concussive, knee buckling, amnesia inducing head trauma against Shavers,...
Summer vacation. The teenie weenie widdle kiddies have been let out of school for matinee season. When these snot nosed brats are again occupied...
I suspect a number of us have been waiting with baited breath here for you to chime in about SRR-Gavilan I, JG.
Does the fact that Johnson 2 and Lopez 2 were WBC Title fights factor into your consideration? Many hardcore aficionados have opined that their...
In Dempsey's autobiography, I believe he wrote that he weighed 236 when he undertook training for Gibbons. (236 is also supposed to be the weight...
True. Gene worked as a lumberjack (I read for a year) specifically to strengthen his brittle hands. Anybody who's chopped, sawed and split...
For me, this thread, and the sterling research by Dempsey1238 is one of the greatest moments of discovery in ESB Classic history:...
Bingo.
Are we pairing them in a boxing ring, or prison cell?
I'd be watching Pep with pen and notebook in hand, while he uses Hamed as the unwilling subject of a disappearing act.
Duran beat Marcel in 1970, Moore in 1983, Barkley in 1989, Castro in 1997, and incredibly avenged one of his four stoppage defeats by decisioning...
Some who claimed it for Louis suggested that it was even after 13, and that Walcott lost the final two rounds by running away. I have not seen the...
A Walcott win would be no kind of shock at all, and I certainly wouldn't ever put any money on an outcome either way. Tunney's jab was faster than...
Everything here presupposes that the sometimes hot and cold Walcott is at his best. He would drive Foreman and Liston up a wall. Peralta, Martin,...
