Lots of hearsay, rumors and completely falsehoods. I’ve read Dempsey’s autobiography cover to cover on many occasions and have it sitting on my...
It’s clearly subjective. Imo there’s no way you can put a heavyweight in the top 10 if they aren’t competitive against heavyweights outside of...
Uhh he did. The other promoter failed to produce the money and the fight was banned in New York State, the biggest hub of boxing at the time....
That's a bit of an exaggeration. Football and basketball players from 30-40 years ago were just as good as those today. Baseball has declined if...
I rate h2h. To me if they really are great then they would be able to prove it across eras. The ones that can't simply had to have fought in...
Like I said I have little interest in engaging in an argument over it. You’ve held your opinions for years and have probably been in more than a...
The topic has been beaten to death to the point where the thought of arguing this topic again for an unbelievable amount of times makes me totally...
Could have been but I’m going off of Marciano’s habit of turning good fighters into retired or no longer good like he did with Louis, Charles,...
Not sure how I could say it in simpler terms. I’m asking if Jack Dempsey, at his best (whenever you consider that), could win a title in any era...
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When is the last year or time period that Dempsey would be able to win a title? At Heavyweight.
Everyone talked about the thread title for all of 5 minutes then went straight to spewing garbage and outright lies for the rest of it then pat...
In an actual fight there is no way Jackson would knock out Hagler. Hagler would have to close his eyes and let Jackson hit him to get put out.
Louis never would have received a shot at the title in ‘56. After the Marciano loss in the next 5 years he would lost or been stopped by Walcott,...
I'm pretty confident Schmeling would outfight Carnera and take the fight to him for 15 rounds. Even stop him but if Carnera somehow managed a...
