https://web.archive.org/web/20091027001016/http://us.share.geocities.com/mgpaul2/Fights.htm They do a detailed breakdown of how each fighter got...
I added "certainly the least threatening one" to cover my bases here. The other small eras either were a mix of small guys and giants like the 10s...
Here are the ratings from sportsratings. Or its earlier site can't tell what the name is because I'm using wayback. I added the losses bit myself....
Three main reasons. He fought in the smallest HW era. Certainly the least threatening one. A lot of his LHW resume that he is credited with was...
Top 5 is a flawed metric because who is in the top 5 is heavily arbitrary. Especially in a time period like the 80s. One shouldn't be looking at...
I don't think the rise of the 12 rounder and the superheavy are related here at all.
Back then Africa and Asia didn't have a seperate regional pipeline. But actually I misrememberd it was Carpentier who took the lineage from...
For me it was clearly Tucker. Was world champ and NABF/USBA double winner. Pinklon has a less impressive win column then Tucker and a less...
The TBA fight has finally been removed. Luis Ortiz's opponent for September 19th is now the 8-4 Philip Penson. The 5'10 40 year old started his...
It was a major belt until 1946 then it was the most prestigious regional belt before NABF and USBA hit the scene. Brits can fight for the...
Neither really. I will go with Marciano because he made the comebacks and whatever you think of his resume he went 49-0. With Jeffries theres a...
For the NSC title. I think they ran the Commonwealth title and the domestic titles as well though the timeline of how that came to pass is...
The "TBA" fight is still set for August 30th. It is now September 2nd.
Most sanctioning bodies weren't established yet except the NSC which had existed since the 1890s. Outside the British sphere titles were claimed...
Before Gunboat the "white heavyweight championship of the world" was not held by the best white HW or even any top white HW. The "colored" title...
