I'm not sure your claims hold even for the most part. Money was the prime driver that brought Ali to Kinshasa and Quezon City. If the world's best...
You over generalizing again. You do realise that throughout history that there have been divisions that the US has not been dominant in? Your...
This is all over-generalised. The US is the most financially lucrative market for particular fighters in particular weight classes at certain...
Roughly best each generation with some tortured decade placings. 1910s/20s Benny Leonard 1930s Henry Armstrong 1940s Joe Louis 1950s Sugar Ray...
Standards in sport tend to rise every generation for a variety of reasons, technology is probably always the biggest driver.
The best Fury probably wouldn't have too much trouble with the best Marciano. Comparing from such different eras and different sizes and weights...
I agree, also why I feel he now deserves to be rated ahead of Holyfield as the greatest ever cruiserweight.
A more accurate statement would be that US fighters rarely ever want to travel. Their circumstances are not typically different from non-US fighters.
so 1953 Gavilan vs 1946 Burley? Definitely going the distance, i'd probably edge it to Gavilan.
Dominant champions almost always get the criticism that they are only dominant because their opponents are rubbish. Also more hardcore boxing fans...
I agree Muhammad Ali was a world champion in the truest sense. Yes there are plenty of other greats that you can make the hometown argument...
The best argument, leaving aside the claims of other fighters, is that he was a hometown fighter. All his fights were in the US and most of them...
This thread is a perfect parody of all classic boxing history sections on internet forums.
It has to be borne in mind that the gloves being used by boxers throughout history differ. For instance there is a difference between throwing and...
1920s Rene DeVos/Dave Shade 1930s Dave Shade/Len Harvey 1940s Charley Burley 1950s Charles Humez/Rocky Castellani 1960s Joey Archer...
