You don't think Ken Buchanan is HOF material? Anyway, why are you restricting your assessment of Duran solely to his lightweight days? In rating...
I'm sure I would!
So when the best fighters you ever saw just happened to be active, when you were a young man... that has nothing to do with nostalgia? I mean,...
Who are these "less informed posters" you are talking about? Is it those who don't agree with you, or those who don't know anything about boxing...
I would like to think, you're not serious... that it's somehow your job to make these silly predictions, in order to create controversy.
You don't believe someone like Roman Gonzalez could one day be seen as a top-10 flyweight? Of course his career isn't over yet, so the final...
Edgren was 17 when Fitz beat Nonpareil for the middleweight crown, and 23 when he dethroned Corbett. He was 50 years old when Greb became...
Of course they did... because they saw Stanley first. It's as simple as that! With no footage of Greb, it's hard to make a pick - but from what...
... and even if he had lived long enough to have seen all those that came after Louis, he would still have picked Dempsey as the best ever. That's...
You need to study a bit of boxing history!
Because of his punching power, you can't really rule out Louis against anyone. However, against someone like Ali - surely one of the most...
Why would I not like Dempsey? He was a very colourful, exciting fighter; boxing's first real superstar - and since I didn't know him personally,...
Of course they didn't! Dempsey's and Rocky's primes were approx. 30 years apart... so these trainers and writers must have been young men when...
Duran vs Hagler is the obvious choice, but with that one already mentioned... ... I will go with the (then) unknown Azuma Nelson, whose stock...
You can't think of a single reason, why we maybe should take this with a pinch of salt?
