No.
For a top boxer, never having tasted defeat is of course a bit special... but even if you change the Greb loss to a win, I don't think his overall...
I thought, only the top 3 vote-getters will be inducted?
Yes
Tommy Burns Primo Carnera Burns... to see if janitor is right, when he favours him to beat Deontay Wilder. Carnera... to see if him mastering...
I have looked very closely at this short clip... and I don't really see Murphy doing anything worth writing home about. Maxim, on the other hand,...
Fireman Jim Flynn KO 1 Jack Dempsey
So did I! After 5 rounds I remember thinking no way these guys are gonna be able to keep this up for another 7... what an awesome fight!
“Dempsey would have absolutely beaten any fighter who came after him – without a doubt. I know all about Joe Louis and how he knocked guys’ teeth...
Arcel was possibly the biggest Dempsey fanboy ever - so his opinion should be taken with a pinch of salt.
They don't come much skinnier than Jimmy Wilde.
We had a thread here some years ago, where "Arc of Boxing" was up for discussion:...
Hmm... isn't that the book, where we're told that Lennox Lewis was a very ordinary fighter, who would get destroyed by Luis Firpo?
So you're matching the best heavyweights from an entire decade (30's) with the best from a single year (2017)? To make it a fair comparison, how...
That's my take on it too! Very tiny talent pool in the late 19th century... at least compared to post WW1, where boxing became more widespread,...