I think it's not so much that Jeffries was old, but inactive for six years and extremely weight drained.
Small correction, George was Forty-eight against Briggs.
Once again (!) the entirety of your comment can, without exaggeration, be distilled simply to "190 pounds" with exactly nothing of substance or...
I see zero reason Foreman would find Wilder any harder to get to than Jack O' Halloran, which is not good news for Wilder.
Tell me, are you satisfied with your intelligence?
Ah. I suppose I should have inferred that there might a history and broader context there.
That seems to me a very strange position to take, let alone to treat as forehead-slappingly obvious, since we have objective, thorough, utterly...
Why not Willard? It's my understanding that he could really crack, at least by reputation.
This is a trivial point but I'd be very surprised if what we now call electrical tape existed at the time.
Could someone walk me through how downgrading Foreman and Liston -even if you do so persuasively - would make Marciano look better? That seems...
He did in the second fight however. Literally. George broke his arm.
Peralta yes, (a bit, in the first fight) Qawi, no. With the latter he just took his time. At one point if you listen closely you can hear...
No he didn't. That was a dive.
Proven?
No Ali? Surely he's up there. Ali, Holyfield and Foreman are the ones who sprang immediately to my mind. Tyson probably belongs somewhere near...
