Holmes was going to beat Coetzee. Then the banks failed to come up with the money, which opened up Caesar's Palace for the Hearns-Duran...
Harry Wills should have gotten a shot. However, due to the times, there would have been a lot of pressure on him, that is for sure. Im sure some...
A heavyweight version of Thomas Hearns
I also hate the nickname Mexican Killer and Im not even Mexican myself, I'm Puerto Rican. Mexican people get upset and quite rightly. Also,...
That is all very true, all very true!
Which one do you prefer?
I agree with you that Ayala would have beaten Moore.. He'd been 50/50 with Hearns because of Tommy's chin but ironically, I cant see him beat...
When you think about it, anything that has to do with assassin, hitman, killer, matador, etc, in a sport like boxing, where, unlike tennis, golf,...
White Lightning could just have been Lightning.. The loser of that fight should have been named Chuck Brown lol In a meeting between them in...
I mean yeah but the nickname can be inaccurate maybe but not inappropriate.
wow..I mean just wow.....guess he forgot every boxer who had died until then and the ones who would die later, and those who cried over a fallen...
Joe never participated in the Olympics. That was just the racist press of the times.
Indeed, as well as The Brown Bomber!
Don't forget: Sanchez-Gomez for 81, a huge event and a hell of a fight I see often on you tube, even if my man lost!
For obvious reasons, there are nicknames in boxing I don't like. Like, let's say, if someone was nicknamed "The Killer" or "Silent But Deadly" or...
