Jean-Pierre Coopman still walks the Earth as well.
Am I missing something here? I thought that a boxer's "resume" was a list of the fighters that they'd beaten. Toney and Jones aren't on McCallum's...
Jimmy Ellis went 1-3 in 1964 fighting at middleweight. I kind of doubt anyone would have picked him as Ali's successor as heavyweight champion.
It says it all about their respective paths to the title that Starling now rates as too great a step up in class for Breland. Starling was the...
Chartchai Chionoi against Susumu Hanagata. Weighed in at 115.5 for a flyweight title defense, got stripped before the fight (which he proceeded to...
Marlon Starling seemed to have settled into domestic level after he lost his world title challenge against Curry, and then he suffered losses...
I've always empathized with Galindez on this. Imagine if the situation were reversed, if it were a US fighter challenging a fighter from...
By this standard, neither was Tyson vs. Douglas. Curry vs. Honeyghan was maybe the biggest upset of the '80s. It was not a close contest....
One of the most visually striking boxers ever. He looked like he was standing on a pair of stilts, so long were his legs, but instead of teetering...
Not sure if this is bizarre enough to count, but it was the weirdest round-fifteen happening I could think of. I've included the video below for...
Basically how I saw it. McCallum just pecked and pecked. His punches had nothing on them. Toney fought only sixty seconds a round and still...
That's the one.
John Wesley Meekins vs. Mohammed Kawoya, round three: Referee rules a TKO win for Meekins at the exact moment that Kawoya throws a punch that...
I always thought that Jose Legra was the poster boy for this. Some others: Ayub Kalule Vassiliy Jirov Antonio Cervantes Ken Buchanan, arguably
Duran did hold his own in the '80s. He more than held his own. He won three world titles, at welter, junior middle, and middle. I'll venture to...
