I've been appreciating your contributions to this thread greatly, but I do find myself wondering whether they're aimed at the relevant question,...
In 1989 I was excited for it and picked Tyson. After Tokyo I remained interested because I wanted to see if Tyson would revert to top form, but I...
This is the most sensible thing I've read on this thread. Relying on the Rahman and McCall fights is goofy unless the question is "Lennox at his...
Tyson's appearance -- bored, pudgy, nervous and distracted -- as he walked to the ring for the Lewis fight sums him up at that point in his...
I've never been able to find it in any of his writings, but I've seen attributed to Pascal the edict that the "first moral obligation is to think...
Yes. I see everything that Duran accomplished above lightweight -- especially the most improbable -- as further evidence of the depth of this...
It was an exercise in pure grit getting all the way through his autobiography. The losses he doesn't make an excuse for he talks about as if they...
In forty years of following boxing this is the first time I've seen anyone say that anyone would "school" Duran. Beat, yes, but never "school."
When I was a kid I remember seeing George Foreman on Sanford and Son. Fred got George all riled up, George punched a wall, hurt his hand, and had...
The entirety of Tyson's training and strategy was built around closing the distance and cutting off the ring against runners with long jabs and...
Yes. George was a walking master class in all the skills that Rollin here identifies, which are among the best techniques and are seen in other...
I'm not sure how we could know how he would have employed a different style since we only ever saw him using peek-a-boo (to varying and declining...
Not wrong. It does seem as obvious as the two-wrongs-don't-make-a-right rule my grandmother taught me. It is hard not to focus on Holy...
Yes. Add to this Tyson's puzzling lack of an inside game for a fighter of his style, and you get instances of when Tyson was stifled. This is...
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