Yeah, I did too... absolutely incredible slugfest!
Tony DeMarco will be 86 in January. Former bantamweight king Robert Cohen turned 87 last month.
I think their new category definitions are all messed up! For example: Jack (kid) Berg was active from 1924 to 1945, and is in the "Modern"...
Right... I wasn't really thinking about the last part of your question!
Michael Moorer became WBO champ in his rookie year.
If you by "no mas" mean fights, that are listed as RTD wins - then there must be hundreds and hundreds of boxers with more than 4 of those on...
Agree. I find it hard to believe, that Rigo will win this one.
I thought we were talking about actual pro fights, and not some random guys who wanted to prove their manhood at a county fair. The fact that...
I'd like to hear, what circumstantial evidence you're talking about.
For the entire 1880's decade, BoxRec has registered a total of 4.638 pro fights. For the year 2016 alone, 26.873 fights can be found in their...
That 130 years ago the talent pool was but a very small fraction of what it is today. That gloved boxing was a fairly new thing, and not yet...
"Almost certainly" sounds pretty much as granted as it can be. Yes, it would be fair to pick a top boxer from one era over a non-top boxer from...
But that's just it, we know next to nothing about Sullivan. But you just take it for granted, that he would beat a MUCH bigger, stronger modern...
Yeah, he was once the best in the world - like 130 (or so) years ago! But what did it take to be the best that far back? We simply don't know.
Just like we would have to ask, how good a boxer Sullivan really was.
