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Jimmy Young is not one of the top 50 heavyweights who ever lived, not even close. Tunney is easily top 20. Young gets props for "beating" Ali,...
If you can conjure the two of them up and put them in the ring and Jimmy Young survives three rounds without getting knocked down multiple times...
He would still be the GOAT and his later years might have been more pleasant.
Jesus H. Christ …:eusa_doh:
Henry Cooper is one of my favorites. First-rate prize fighter, just a little small for a heavyweight and he bled like a stuck pig if anyone looked...
Ali in 1963 was screwing around trying to achieve his round prediction and nearly paid for it.
One gets awfully tired punching air, as Wilder will be doing while his face is shredded by jabs.
Now this would be a fight … very shaky nod to Hearns.
I’ve thought carefully about this one before answering. The arguments for Norton are compelling and to me Fury is just big, the pituitary cases...
Futch had "Ali derangement syndrome" IMO.
Real chess match of a fight ... Floyd had more pop, he gets the nod.
Patterson, relatively easy decision with a chance to catch Farr and put him down. Farr didn't have the power to hurt Floyd. Maybe a flash...
I am going with Monzon because of reach and work rate and ring generalship and because I think he will pull a SRL on Hagler and force him to lead...
