Mickey Walker is a great example of a middleweight who took on heavyweights. And consider that almost everyone at the time regarded Walker as not...
I think McCallum is "h2h" excellent of fighters who competed at light-middle/154 division officially, but there were dozens of other 154 pounders...
If the fight was taking place last July, i would have picked Fury to win inside 3 rounds, very likely inside 2, and wouldn't have been surprised...
They were close fights. I had Holmes winning the rematch, but Spinks won the first. Holmes was 20 pounds bigger than Spinks, a 220 pounder,...
Kalambay very clearly did get the better of McCallum in the first fight, when both were definitely at their peaks.
In fact, at the time Duane Thomas's win against Mugabi (thumb incident notwithstanding) was actually considered a better 154 win than McCallum's...
You can't compare moving from 154 to 160 to what Spinks did. Many of the greatest middleweights of all-time were 154 or 155 anyway. It's not a big...
He's the best Scot since Jim Watt at least. Possibly the best since Ken Buchanan. In a couple of years time he might be clearly above both.
I think you're way off the mark.
Spinks was much greater fighter than McCallum.
The whole "Gerald McClellan was 185 pounds in the ring" is bull****. He might have walked around at 185 or more and carried it well at one time,...
Jack "Kid" Berg
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Channel 5 has provided some good boxing over the years, free to view. I wish there was more. This could be a good fight.
His resume going into the Wilder fight can be viewed as very shallow, yes. But so is Andy Ruiz's resume going into the AJ fight.