Primo Carnea knocked down 11 times by Max Baer and kept getting up so what you like about his skills but that's tough. Joe Frazier against...
From a historical context it's nuts.
The top 3 I could agree with.
Pretty much.
I think the top 3 are fair. However Holmes should be 4th at least ahead of Frazier and Foreman.
If you combined both of Ali's title defenses (1964-1967) and (1974-1978) he has 19 defenses overall so he could come in 2nd on the Lineal list but...
To be fair to him he defended the title 11 times in 2 years how many active champions do that? Plus he gave Jack Johson an opportunity to...
Because he had a break in the lineage by losing to Hasim Raham he had defended 6 times up until that point from 1998-2001 and regained the title...
Holmes based on career overall. Tyson as the 1980's dominant heavyweight he cleaned up the heavyweights that Larry didn't fight.
Boxing News Heavyweight Top 10 1. Muhammad Ali 2. Joe Louis 3. Lennox Lewis 4.George Foreman 5.Rocky Marciano 6.Joe Frazier 7.Larry Holmes 8....
The younger Cassius Clay/Ali champion (1964-1967) surely beats both of them? Larry Holmes (1978) (The version that beat Shavers and Norton) can...
Lewis Vs Mercer (1996) Round 1 Lewis Round 2 Draw (could have gone either way) Round 3 Lewis Round 4 Lewis Round 5 Lewis Round 6 Mercer Round 7...
Ali was having novocaine injections into his knuckles regulary before fights during the second phase of his career. A lot fighters suffer from...
I think of the left hook he threw after he'd knocked out Jersey Joe Walcott with the right hand when he was down.
It is more nostaglia for me. Back in 1999 this was a big fight when I was a teenager at the time and I got bought Knockout Kings 99 on the Sony...
