Unless you know some things I don't (always possible) I think it would be rash to assume that with any confidence. The U.S. population at that...
I somehow missed this comment before. Yes, please, I'd very much like to see the study you're alluding to, even if it's incomplete.
It has nothing to do with boxing, which is why I was very brief in my reply. But I just couldn't let that go unremarked. You're quite right both...
That is the stupidest assertion it's possible to make in the context of music. Coltrane is one of the supreme musical geniuses of all time - right...
I seem to recall hearing somewhere that Jem Mace in his later years almost killed a guy who tried to rob him.
What always amazed me was that LaMotta was credited as a consultant on the film and apparently sanctioned its release. So he looked at the final...
Maybe this question should have its own thread, but is there any actual evidence that Tyson had been training less regularly leading up to the...
Maybe I'm splitting semantic hairs but when I think of chin I think of the raw ability to absorb trauma without impairment. What you're...
I think size must make for better chins ceteris paribus, but I think it stands to reason that it scales with size less than punching power does,...
Galento was the thirties' Fat Prodigy. Pretty much every heavyweight era has at least one: A fat guy who can fight far better than you might...
Not sure this will be of much interest to anyone else, but I thought this was incredibly cool. Just when I thought I could not possibly have a...
Are you forgetting that Freddie Roach is Michaelangelo? Heh, heh, but was Michelangelo an improvement upon Phidias or Praxiteles? I think this...
*grin* Those souls will have to be very patient indeed if they seek to catch me in any logical fallacies. Just so you know, a non sequitur is a...
"How can you guarantee that the quality of boxers in an era is solely a function of the number of active boxers? That supposition seems to entail...
