Fully agree :good
Over heavily shopworn versions of them. Leonard can claim prime scalps of Benitez and Hearns. Near enough prime Duran - their second bout.
No. Anyone who has Duran,Hearns,Benitez and Hagler wins on their record has got to be pretty formidable. Yes,Hagler may have been past prime...
Food for thought,Mr Butt. Depends on whether or not Godzilla was one of Don King's fighters.
No that was the...erm......Tokyo Ali :D
Kinshasa Foreman was exactly the same man as the Caracas and Kingston ones. Ali was simply a far harder puzzle that Frazier and Foreman.
The Oriental Buster seems in mode. How about this one added to the mix ?
How about London Tillis ?
James outpoints Joe for a few rounds but eventually succumbs to heavy pressure,especially Frazier's inside work,and gets stopped by the seventh
Ah...the beast that was 'Tokyo Douglas' again ;) Holyfield was the better all round fighter so I still see him winning. However,unlike the real...
Good post as always. I admired Joe a lot but he certainly gets swerves more than most other great fighters.
Foster was one of the all time great 175 lb men. But by 1973,he was on the slide. This was made blatantly apparent the following year when he...
Could well have panned out like you say. Depending on how serious Benitez would have taken Cuevas
Nobody would have begrudged Joe ONE easy defence following FOTC but TWO were ridiculous. As Bokaj has stated,Ali would have been pilloried had he...
I see him beating the lot. Mariciano,Walcott and Charles push him all the way. Louis would have been too shopworn by this point in time.
