Yes Lou Duva put togther a team for Holyfield. George Benton was his boxing coach and Tim Hallmark his conditioner.
He admittedly liked to party and drink alcohol and said his camps would either be great and he'd prepare properly (like against Morrison) or he'd...
Evander Holyfield from 1988-1992 is the best version for me trained by George Benton over the later Emanuel Stewart and Don Turner trained...
The younger version of Cassius Clay/Ali (1964-1967) was a reflex fighter so he could pull away from punches but could be susceptable to the left...
Yes so many Heavyweight Champions suffered with alcoholism and substance abuse mate. John L Sullivan Gene Tunney Primo Carnera Joe Frazier Leon...
How seriously did people take his rebuild before getting his opportunity against Lennox Lewis? I remember watching him post fight Lou Savarese in...
“I gotta swoop,” Leon would say. “Let me swoop.”
They say that amateur boxers fight for honour and professionals fight for money. Amateur boxing is a sport and Professional boxing is a business.
Leon Spinks went AWOL as Champion and drank and used drugs while Muhammad Ali reportedly ran more miles and spar more rounds than he had in years...
Butch Lewis said Spinks threw the rematch away while Ali trained from the time he lost from February 1978 all the way up to the rematch in September.
I scored Foreman Vs Briggs 8-3-1 or 8-4 in favour of Foreman.
Oscar De La Hoya I've watched his complete career set including his amateur fights before the Olympics and even then he was an outstanding talent....
Ironically the rematch could have been a draw you could argue the case for 6-6 Or 6-5-1 for Lewis or Holyfield either way. If Lewis had offically...
That's quite interesting. He won the American Heavyweight title beating Paddy Ryan in 1882 but didn't offically become World Heavyweight Champion...
Do you consider Floyd Patterson still the youngest Heavyweight Champion? Personally I see him as offically the youngest Lineal Heavweight champion...
