"I don't believe in conspiracy theories" The issue isn't conspiracy, it is insincerity. There was no conspiracy involved when Hitler signed...
"If he avoided Wills, why would he sign a contract to fight him?" To fool people. We just don't know if Dempsey or someone in the Dempsey camp...
Depends what time you are talking about. New York Times, July 6, 1919 -- page 20 JACK DEMPSEY, NEW HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION, ANNOUNCES HE WILL...
Just some disagreements 1--top lightheavyweight Lesnevich--Gus had lost to Mills and Maxim. He was no longer a top anything. 2--Past prime--I...
"what book was written" I think it is the internet. Information, such as records on boxrec, newspaper reports, etc, are far more available than...
"I am a teacher" "dictator" One of the pleasures of growing old is noticing that most of the predictions made by your professors back in the...
"You missed Tyson" It was not deliberate, just an oversight brought on by incipient senility. So Tyson--2 (2*)
Taking this list, (and I probably made some mistakes), I totaled the number of top five fighters beaten (one per fighter, no doubling if a fighter...
How about Louis? No. Louis was certainly one of the better "3rd decade" contenders, but I can't see it. I would rate the fifties Marciano,...
*Ingo ko'd Machen in '58 and Patterson in '59. I don't know their criteria. If h2h, Liston makes sense in the '50's. If on accomplishments in...
"Rocky did take some heat for turning his back on Joe" The film shows Rocky hurrying over to Louis the instant the physician finishes with Joe...
My pick is Max by late ko.
"Shavers who everyone called the hardest puncher" Everyone? Was a poll taken of everyone who fought Shavers or are you speaking of just the...
Well, I started this thread on the basis of the absolute hardest (or best) puncher in the world through history. Not p4p. *It is not restricted...
I am surprised no one has said Jerry Quarry ANY ex-champion is an automatic stepping-stone type
