..i haven't read all of the pages here....but the finest hour in defeat was used by a lot of sports writers about charles in the first marciano...
...you guys have it pegged...giardello...and it wouldn't be one of his toughest fights.
...i'm bumping this back into contention because i sawbilly smith (oakland billy at that time) in cincinnati in 1948...and billy spent some time...
foreman may not have wanted a rematch. after the ali fight foreman put together some wins and then lost to jimmy young..probably exhausted and...
..max baer never got over his killing frankie campbell. his brother buddy said often max would cry just thinking about it. ezzard charles...
..jake lamotta ricky graziano...nowhere near a great fighter but he was fun to watch on the attack..which is where he usually was bob...
.....ruiz has one chance to win this one...by disqualification if big george gets pissed and throws him out of the ring..
..ruiz was made for the older, slower foreman..who was still as strong as samson. his stamina was better than the younger george,and he was...
..he found out he could punch that hard when he fought welterweights instead of middleweights. rocky himself sometimes said, "I'm the world's...
...yeah, hagler was good. i think the best ever though was joe louis. he had only one rematch with a guy wyho beat him the first time (schmeling)...
..archie could get called up from the audience and kayo graziano in a few rounds. lamotta? archie probably by a decision. i think he'd nullify...
..i'm not doubting mcvey, but i do wonder about the source for the alleged marciano to walcott quote. marciano was down for only a few seconds...
..archie moore talked to his opponents often. here are the examples I know of: ezzard charles told me archie kept using the "n" word in at...
..mrbill is the only one to point out that jeffries fought from a crouch. nat fleischer always referred to jeffries' "famous crouch" and others...
..there's on historian who picks charles. me. (i think jeffries was a very good fighter.)
