All Duran has to do is wait until the referee is behind the big bodies of those huge lugs, then do a cup denting Buchanan to the body. Duran KO 1...
It also says a lot that other contributors to this thread have been placing Ray among their top three elites throughout our conversation. Benitez,...
Even Janks Morton didn't think Ray could beat Duran after Montreal. SRL would always lose to Duran in a first time affair. Montreal Duran would...
Do you feel any differently now that you've had another 24 hours to reflect on this? For me, something else to consider when comparing Monzon,...
I'm bringing this up for the consideration of those who may not yet familiar with our divergent views on the subject. (Man, wouldn't this be a...
Earlier, I was about to submit a superior version of this post, but lost it to an untimely crash. (Thanks, Firefox!:mad:) My apologies, but this...
It wasn't a lack of maturity which cost Joe against Bodell, but a lack of fire and aggression. Bugner needed an Angelo Dundee to light a fire...
I've always believed Lennox would have been down for the count from the right hand Holmes got up from. Snipes was just the sort of challenger a...
Norm Goins said his chin wasn't so bad, but that if Howard Davis, Jr. was hit on the temple he could find easily himself on the deck. He made...
Seconded. Pryor took out Arguello twice, Cervantes, and registered a pair of 15 round decision wins before he turned 30. Beating him would have...
It does begin to seem as though you are more inclined to lock in Monzon as a top three candidate than Ali (of course Carlos is the one who has...
Monzon is my top middleweight. There is no controversy about the outcome of any of his championship performances, and he retired on top when he...
Many years after he retired, he awarded a championship to the winner of an early ESPN tournament, and he was still a handsome and lively sonofagun...
Newsday's legendary boxing scribe Bob Waters claimed that Vito won 11 of the 15 rounds in Antuofermo-Hagler I, and Antuofermo was extremely vocal...
All right. Let's say Ray hit his stride in 1979. He dethrones Benitez at the end of November that year. Bruce Finch came in mid February 1982,...
