Well, no- it hasn't significantly changed my views, because the point it made was more or less what I already thought before I watched the video....
Only a few of the examples I used were from fights where the champion could be reasonably considered to have been significantly outside his prime....
Bingo.
This thread was meant mainly as a retort to Russell's "Could Patterson drop Marciano? Or was he not the puncher Walcott and Moore were?" thread,...
Yes, I think that's more what people mean when they repeat the "Tyson-lost-when-people-stood-up-to-him" thing. Plenty of his opponents were...
How many times did Marciano take enough damage to likely warrant a stoppage even in a modern title fight? Probably just the Charles rematch. But...
Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, George Foreman, Larry Holmes, Joe Frazier, Jack Dempsey, Jack Johnson, Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, etc.?...
Sure he could. Patterson could drop just about anyone.
Actually, Moore's knockout percentage was much higher in fights in which he was the smaller man than in fights where he wasn't. And why,...
Actually, the numbers are slightly wrong there. Foreman had approximately an 84% knockout average.
I think it's a little bit of both.
A prime Echols was a very good fighter. Monstrous hitter, decent skills, a ton of heart. Transport the Echols of six or seven years ago to the...
I think Pavlik is a good-but-not-necessarily-legendary champion and will lose his belt within his next five defenses. Taylor will, as you say,...
Boxrec is not a complete catalogue of all professional boxing matches that have ever taken place. In fact, by their own estimates, they don't even...
I think a bulked-up Hagler would have a good chance at lasting the distance with Lyle.
