Depends on how much space between the ropes there is for him to duck through.
Displays of skill or not, it's the platonic ideal of a fight.
I'm starting to think there was nothing sordid after all about Sonny's death--he simply died of old age. :dunno
Ezzard Charles, before becoming HW champion, beat: Archie Moore (3 times) Joey Maxim (3 times) Jimmy Bivins (3 times).
Billy Miske knocking out Bill Brennan in 1923 while he was ****ing dying of Bright's disease.
You beat me to it. A late-career Ali batters Joe around the ring until he gets exhausted and passes out. TKO for Grim.
I'm not sure there was ever any period where boxing was, overall, more popular than baseball. Part of it was the issue of middle-class...