Jacobs certainly had the athleticism - he was a highly-rated handball player, and looked in good shape - but from all I can tell from...
“Ah say, I say now, that boy’s as dumb as a bag o’ hammers!”
When the riot started after Bowe-Golota, George Foreman became a 6'4" protective wall between thugs and Jim Lampley and Larry Merchant; at one...
Foreman-Ali, in that Muhammad was seen as past his prime, going in against a monster who destroyed Ali's two toughest opponents - men he'd fought...
“That worked with Floyd. Ain’t gonna work on me.”
Good summary, and corrects some points I wasn't aware of or misremembered - I was lucky enough to see it "live" on closed-circuit when that was...
There was SUCH hype about Cooney - he even had a Time magazine cover (posed with Sylvester Stallone, who must have been standing on a milk crate -...
The One and Only!
Like a lot of people with self esteem issues, I think Floyd “carried” himself small and a bit slouched; 5’11 becomes 5’9” pretty easily.
“I’ll hit him with so many punches from so many angles, he’ll think he’s surrounded!” “If he even DREAMS about beating me, he better wake up and...
I thought Carl Williams had a lot of potential - gave a faded-but-still game Holmes a tough night, seemed to have all the right tools to become a...
Legends - Foreman, Frazier, Holmes, Norton and Ali; great gathering of champions: [MEDIA]
The casual fan only knows him as a cuddly Mr Stay Puft, jolly fellow who hawked grills, mufflers and anything else he could sign a million dollar...
Today? None of them In the 70s, Kenny Norton might have had a shot; he had a Frank Zane-like symmetry, and a little more natural size (Zane was...
I’ve maintained that, until “modern” training produces a boxer who’s truly exceptional - higher punch rate, higher KO percentage, doesn’t gas...
