Yes....and several years ahead of Barry McGuigan
My father and I attended this fight in Vegas. We did not like the way Holmes looked at the weigh-in, and put money on Spinks. It wasn't so much...
just had to pipe in on that one......it's just one of those styles issues....
Very hard fight to pick. Holmes is on record saying Liston would be a super hard fight for him.
Prime for prime, a coke-free Dokes is all wrong for Floyd. Too big, too fast, and too damn good a body puncher. Floyd is the faster guy, but Dokes...
When in doubt, go with Greb.
I never read Otty's book. I heard it was a limited release book. Rosenfeld's book is so amazingly dense in information and so well put together,...
Boxing probably peaked in the 1940s and 1950s relative to technique and quality of opposition.
Duran would win, but Panama Lewis would not allow this fight to happen.
Charley Burley, The Life & Hard Times of an Uncrowned Champion
Ayala in 4.....that is if he was off heroin and booze. A clean Ayala. We should not count the Ayala of 1999 until he went back to prison,...
Styles....always a car wreck. Hearns early.
Look up all of the IBHOF trainers, and you will find none who quote their street fighting exploits like Teddy Atlas. Look up all of the IBHOF...
