"Ortiz was an active champion" Who was losing fights and no longer seemed confortable making weight. He fought Harold Dade at 132 lbs two months...
I disagree. The only defeats (other than the fluke DQ against Sharkey) that Fitz suffered from 1890 to 1905 were to Jeffries. Fitz went on to ko...
Toweel had an extensive amateur career, but the reasons he doesn't make ATG lists are one--Ortiz seems to have been a great champion who was at...
Without the comeback, I would probably rate him a fringe top twenty type, if that high. With the comeback, I move him up about ten spots to a...
"his case has been somewhat overstated" Fair enough. "Goddard . . . was well past it" Fair enough, but fighting fading big names is what...
"Toweel gets low-balled a bit, say, compared to Jeffries." You are the first person I have seen compare them. Toweel got to the championship...
In fairness to Carnera and his supporters, he does not look to me as the worst on film, but in fact seems to have been a good boxer for such a...
Historically, one who has been forgotten is Charley Retzlaff. He looks gawky and like not much against Joe Louis, but his record gives one pause....
anyone who bet ANY man that he couldn't get Mae to go to bed with him certainly deserved to lose the money. As Mae herself put it "I used to...
I agree with much of what you post on this thread, but "phony hyped up boxing heroes of the past never even fought one single Russian or eastern...
With no real footage of Choynski, one has to judge by the record, and Marciano's is a mile better, and he also has a big size advantage. Joe's...
I take Witherspoon by ko.
Valdes lost to all the "big" punchers he fought--Moore, Satterfield, Liston--and he really didn't fight that many. My take after watching the...
Yes. Look at the heavyweights. Wlad is 36 but his last defense, against Mormack, and his next, against Thompson, are against men even older....
no Mickey Walker???? Dick Tiger???? Winning percentage of opponents?--by this standard Roy Harris was a tougher defense for Floyd Patterson than...
