The first time I saw Corky Baker, he was holding one of the football players from my school's team upside down, shaking all the money from his...
To me, Duran comes close to being the greatest fighter of all time in many ways, including the record and the sheer aura, as these great pictures...
Oops. I'm throwing in the Gomez and Lopez fights as well. The point is Chava became a professional at age 16 with no real amateur career, and 6...
Even though he had been fighting for only about 6 years in all, Salvador Sanchez's performance against an ultramotivated, greenish Azumah Nelson...
"Ali's got it up here!", said a young lad tapping his head in a darkened Chicago theater prior to the closed-circuit transmission that night....
Johnson's icing of Ketchell has always been evidence to me of Lil' Arthur's greatness. As was customary to him, Johnson was most definitely...
First I think it important to consider Ali, Holmes and Tunney are expert fighters and as such command the tools, in contrast to guys Lewis bombed...
I'm getting a Big-Mac attack myself, but in parting may I simply say I am in awe of Tyson's cyclonic combo on the durable, determined Thomas for a...
This is a debate going on since the '60s, when, after the first Patterson fight, the cry went up: "The champ can't punch!" I would say it is...
Rubén Olivares "Durable Dane" Battling Nelson Mickey Walker Billy Papke
Duran's only chance in this top fantasy matchup is to get under Robinson's skin in the run-up, make him lose composure, deploy unrelenting macho...
Ali, Johnson, Tyson, Dempsey, Louis and Foreman, and NONE with absolute confidence. Perhaps Lewis. That night, Frazier achieved what he was...
He was devastating. Unique, crushing power in both hands. Pretty skilled, with a jab, combination- and ring-cutting ability, punch variation, and...
Ditto. Thanks for this food for thought. I would say there is simply more competition as regards sheer excitement, on the one hand. The radio...
Thanks. Jack Blackburn is a boxing jewel: one of the all-time greatest lightweight fighters ever and the maker of Joe Louis. What a guy.
