Lyle certainly proved that this was not theoretically impossible. George himself admitted that Cooney hurt him early. We're discussing degrees of...
The cruiserweight division has always been ultimately a ******* division for those either too lazy to make 175, or simply not good enough to...
Joey Maxim hung tough with Charles and Walcott, taking a ten round SD over Jersey Joe. Loughran could (and did) compete with many top heavyweights...
Stan threw a sucker punch, but it was still a huge shot. Jack was normally far too coordinated to stumble like he did over Ketchel. Reports are...
Agreed. The shot he dropped Johnson with may be the hardest single punch by any middleweight captured on film, and it was more than a flash...
I feel that way about most of mine. It was "stream of consciousness" and "thinking on paper" type stuff, and the sort of result I usually delete....
Trash.
Bob was a sharper puncher with better skill, so he would have been able to make Loughran box with greater caution. True. My thought processes are...
I haven't read it in many years, but his writing was vivid enough that I've never felt any need to return to it.
Jerry Quarry comes to mind immediately. Firpo is huge in Argentina. This isn't about the best to never win a world title, but a popularity contest.
The inventor of modern participative sports journalism (a distinction later misappropriated for George Plimpton at his death) also wrote something...
My supposition here is that Marv's bold declaration may have somehow biased the judges against him. And Tommy nearly won his first match with Ray...
Marv had to concede the negotiations just to get Ray in the ring to begin with. I wonder if Hagler really lost it at the pre fight press...
Based on the footage, I agree with this. He didn't slip, but was outmaneuvered, caught off-balance and out of position when he fell down from...
Max is not going to counterpunch Tommy to a decision win, and he wasn't aggressive or fast enough to suddenly charge Loughran with the sort of...
