I was being a little hyperbolic but if we're talking really prime Ali ... and he was still just a kid against Liston, albeit an insanely talented...
Prime Ali will have Tyson sputtering in frustration within six rounds. Tyson will come out raging and go back to his corner befuddled after not...
Like I said, Ray was smart and savvy in a way that other boxers who only knew fighting weren’t. I think he knew Duran would (1.) behave like a...
I don’t criticize him but Ray had a knack for taking advantage of people who weren’t as smart and savvy as him.
Let me answer a question with a question? Why does a champion inherently deserve consideration for not taking care of business when he had the...
Plus immediate rematches had become kind of frowned upon after some of the very fights you cited ...
Usyk is like a shiny new toy for posters here since that fight ... I may have to take a sabbatical or either summon up all my willpower to avoid...
After that I guess he will divide the fishes and feed the multitudes, and walk on water for his closing act. :biggrin:
Frazier KO
Boxing has not evolved and will never evolve beyond two men trying to beat the s**t out of each other. The simplicity of that is its appeal.
Louis KO I swear, this stuff is like a combined sugar/caffeine/amphetamine/cocaine high …
This … Ali should have walked away after Manila but he had too many hawgs feeding at his trough.
All four of the kings would know they’d been in a fight against Basilio even if they got their hands raised.
This … right now because he’s fresh on their minds people would pick Usyk to beat Thanos.
My point is he was not finished until the initial knockdown. That single punch finished him. The other two knockdowns were just icing on the cake...
