I think never hooking with a hooker favors Jack here, the man who literally wrote the book on it. Neither liked dealing with shorter opponents,...
Robinson would never have stopped LaMotta if Jake hadn't been weight drained in 1951. That's not the version of LaMotta I'm considering here....
An autopsy confirmed that Max Baer killed Frankie Campbell with his fists alone, not because the back of Cambell's head hit the ring ropes,...
Also kept on his feet against prime Norton, although his face let him down again. Doggedly determined, always trying to press forward. But...
I think Holmes would have made the corrections and adjustments necessary to take a clear UD, this time over the championship distance. He managed...
Off the top of my head, Bugner was their only common opponent. I think Ron had superior skills and clearly better mobility when he chose to use...
Dempsey himself belonged to both a racial and religious minority. His father Hiram was part Choctaw, his mother Celia part Cherokee, (making...
Seconded. Because he was a slugger who didn't usually punch in combinations of more than two (and he loved the hook to the body-right to the head,...
I certainly also would have been interested in seeing Frazier take on opponents like these. However: The only way Liston was going to get a...
Yes. Entering the FOTC, he had already accomplished what Tyson had done prior to taking on Holmes and Michael Spinks. Mike established himself as...
When somebody takes the best shots of the hardest puncher in the division, and responds by coming forward, tear up the scorecards, because nine...
Fixed. Good. This prospective comparison analysis is overdue to be made. Interesting that many opinions up till now have Ken falling short of what...
When the media cameras are off, and the press isn't around, I understand that Foreman and Holyfield are pricks, while Holmes and Tyson are pretty...
Yes, but the fact is that it was Joe who won those ten consecutive title bouts, and successfully stepped into the void left by Ali's exile. When...
Sharkey was another who sometimes did what Hopkins has. Immediately after the bell ending round six with Dempsey, the Mauler dropped his gloves...
