"You're not a real boxing fan unless you've seen..."
Bobby Chacon v Arturo Frias Wow, this is a fight Bobby Chacon had no right to win - he was smaller and seemingly overmatched from the start....
Hi Scar, just watched this tonight. Livingstone Bramble v Ray Mancini 2 Much better performance from Mancini this time, who learned a bit from...
Akinwande's performance against Lewis was so shameful that I'm tempted to put him at the bottom of the list on general principal. In fact, 1997...
Livingstone Bramble v Ray Mancini 1 Somehow never watched this one. The writing was on the wall in this one as early as the 4th although Bramble...
Better safety has to be an improvement over the 80s and earlier, surely?
Thanks The Morlocks - I knew you'd come here with a positive take on it!
Race-baiting promotional tactics like the Holmes-Cooney fight thankfully seem to largely be a thing of the past at least.
Someone needed to reply 'It's like a bantamweight but better.'
Yes - that is a great thing!
Most of us on classic forum are big fans of boxing history and tend to get caught up in the nostalgia of its past, whether that's rating fighters...
"It's a fantasy matchup. Let's take each fighter at their worst and see what happens - that'll be fun!"
This thread has got me all fired up to go and watch my Sven Ottke boxset. Fun weekend ahead!
A good and transparently fairminded post. That said, I'd take Toney in all circumstances other than one where the fight takes place in Germany and...
Toney was a more consistent performer at 168 than at 160 but I do take @AwardedSteak863's point about fighting guys whose styles were made for him...
