Holmes is a tailor made answer for this one. By his mid 40s, he was fighting fat and out of shape with not much left other than his skill, ring...
My man Langford will get it done.
Protip: don't stand with hard hitters.
I'm pretty sure Cooney regretted taking the fight. I recall him saying somewhere that he felt like he nearly died from that KO.
Yeah that one was pretty unexpected.
Doesn't get much worse than Frazier-Foreman 1. It wasn't some unexpected brilliant performance over many rounds, like Douglas pulled off against...
Dangerous opponents brought out the best in him.
My pick is the old man Foreman-Holmes fight that was actually signed, but then fell through. Yeah, it wouldn't have been some superfight like...
Are we talking with their single best punch? Or overall? For example, I'd bet Cooney's left hook is just as hard as Tyson's, but how about his...
Larry Holmes. At age 37, he was retired, with tens of millions in the bank, financially set for life. He had escaped boxing with his health...
If we are going that ridiculous, I guess I'll just pick a KO artist. Prime Tyson will end a lot of fights real quickly, so I guess I'll pick him here.
It's probably 4000 calories of fast food and alcohol.
If we are doing Ali dream fights, I'd like to see Prime Ali vs Prime Holmes. Would be a fantastic fight, and would go the distance so we'd get our...
Tyson and Snoop together commentating on a fight would be hilarious.
I guess Vitali Klitschko by how infrequently he lost rounds.
His upset against AJ wouldn't be half as entertaining if he looked fit.
Rather than being a freakshow like Butterbean, Ruiz is actually a solid fighter though.
Yeah, that one was something. To go back in time to the late 80s, and imagine someday watching THAT, I mean, nobody would ever think it. The...
Talk about a buzzsaw.
Floyd Patterson, because he'd probably apologize to me for my having spilled a beer on him.
Larry Holmes might have retired 50-0. If that didn't happen, he might have become a two-time champ in 1997 against Nielsen.
Would need like 4 refs to see all the fouls.
Does a natural puncher truly know where their power comes from? I'd imagine the real big hitters always hit uncommonly hard. They're doing...
Power seems so random. If you look at the builds of guys known for hitting hard, they're all over the damn place. There seems to be no predictor...
I'm not much help other than an observation that white fighters seem to bleed early and easily compared to everyone else.
