He's not well liked on here because he didn't do magic tricks.
Of course. Frank was susceptible to a fighter going all out late on to clinch the win after eating ramrod jabs for much of the night...that man...
:D Still gets a chuckle after all these years Stevie.
Joe would gladly lose a UD to Frank every time out, had they met during their primes.
Mason late stoppage. Gary had the better boxing skills and a very solid chin. His massive head would take a pasting early on but he'd take over...
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Most of this forum have sat through a least a half-dozen Joe Bugner fights, so yes they would.
The best version of most good fighters should come in such a fight (i.e. a heavyweight title eliminator) so that's nothing unusual. Holmes was...
Norman Mailer opens his book The Fight with the sparring sessions, Ali is laying on the ropes vs Bossman Jones and letitng Roy Williams hit his in...
I can see where you're coming from here Swag, I doubt he went in there fully confident of the outcome. I think his belief was probably similar to...
One of my first boxing films too. I think Somebody Up There Likes Me was probably the first (what a good looking fella Graziano was :D). The other...
Same here. I think the main reason I started to get heavily into 'classic' boxing (was a BBC Heavyweights documentary with Harry Carpenter talking...
Honeyghan for me. I know there's the weight issue with Curry going into that fight but he was absolute prime, regarded by many as the pfp best in...
Archie Moore commenting on the heavyweight scene in 1968 stated that Frazier should avoid Liston and that if he walked into Sonny "somebody would...
You still have to take into account Ali's own strength and condition at the time of both the Foreman and Shavers fights. In one he's the...
