Betulio Gonzalez, probably his country's most famous boxer, never got one that I know of.
Love Canto, but he never unified with the WBA champions during his reign. Canto vs. Guty Espadas would have been a natural matchup, two guys from...
Nunn's loss to Steve Little has to be one of the worst losses on record for a fighter of his ability. It wasn't like Little had a Buster Douglas...
Johnson could win this one. He certainly had the skillset to do it. Maybe the fight plays out like Kalambay-McCallum I, but... I see this going...
This is a good matchup for Graham. He's one of the few fighters who'd have an advantage over Johnson in speed, and I feel like his hectic style...
Shoji Oguma had three close fights with Miguel Canto and two close fights with Betulio Gonzalez, in which he went 1-3-1. If he'd gone 5-0 in those...
1980s flyweight Gabriel Bernal is one of the most natural switchers I've ever seen. In his second fight against Sot Chitalada, he scored two...
Mexico's brutally difficult flyweight (and sub-fly) divisions in the 1970s and 1980s meant that a lot of guys took years to claw their way out,...
Miguel Canto vs. Kimio Furesawa
Susumu Hanagata was 1-7 in world title fights. Martin Vargas went 0-4 with some really rough luck in terms of who the champions were.
Did you look this up just for this thread, or was it information you'd gathered over the years? Either way, great post and interesting read.
I would not last one round with Azumah Nelson, but I do want to hear what he'd have to say about fighting me. Would he call me a woman? Would he...
Ecuador hosted a promotion with Nunn-Liles for the SMW title and Hopkins-Mercado I for the MW title in 1994. Wasn't Ellis vs. Patterson in Sweden?
Antonio Avelar vs. Tae-shik Kim Netrnoi Sor Vorasingh vs. Sung-jun Kim Julian Jackson vs. In-chul Baek/Buster Drayton
Barkley was a tough guy so it's possible, but on the other hand he wasn't able to last ten rounds with Hagler's brother.
I think it's possible for Graham to both be a nice, charming person with a cheeky sense of humor, and also have given a rather self-serving...
My good man, allow me to share with you some highlights from Herol Graham's: Best jab: Nobody bothered me with the jab. [He literally didn't pick...
Herol Graham, although in his case it came at the sacrifice of any power in his punches
He did go 1-2 with Jones in the amateurs and desperately wanted a shot at him as a pro. His best win was Nunn. He deserved it IMO, as I had it 6-6...
Hearns was going in against Duran because Steward signed a Duran-Hearns fight when McCallum was Duran's mandatory, which led to McCallum's...
Julian Jackson, largely by virtue of rarely leaving it to the judges.
I'm definitely being provocative here, maybe more than I should, but I'm not trolling. Nunn's performance against Tate was indeed a beautiful...
That's right. His tough fight with Nunn made me forget for a second that he wasn't a natural middle. With his victories over Starling and Curry...
At least when people pit Buster Douglas in fantasy matchups against significantly better opponents, they have the good sense to use the qualifier...
So he was not technically knocked out, but the ruling should have been that he was technically knocked out?