You see other striking sports that play a lot with distance bouncing; karate and taekwondo. Or at least you used to, I don't know what modern TKD...
Really good contender; never quite became "The Man." Roughly around Ken Norton's greatness level.
Marciano was, but is no longer, and has not been for a long time. Marciano's legacy still is, though.
They mostly fought in the war. The first cohorts of Hitler Youth were a little too busy getting drafted, starving and getting shot in Volkssturm...
I think so, for a couple reasons. Germany was smaller prewar than the Soviet Union, but "pretty small" is a relative term when you're talking...
To be fair, it's not much different from my asking a long time ago about what would've happened to boxing if there was no WW2, and the force-fed...
He's still a big favorite, right now, in this forum of people who know that he lost their real fight...
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Sullivan was half myth even during his lifetime. Very good pick for someone who captured imaginations.
I guess my point is, if their machine couldn't produce guys to consistently beat our amateurs back then -- even though that's what it was designed...
Didn't our amateurs compete on equal or better footing to theirs back then? If so, I don't think they'd dominate the pro game, either.
Tyson and Holyfield didn't get knocked down enough in their primes to outfight a seasoned brawler like Foreman. Patterson was the true King of...
Wonder what Young's excuses were for not beating Foreman even worse.
Ali KO'd Lyle and Foreman, and by the Word of Cosell, he rope a doped them both. Which by Ancient Tradition translates to letting them hit him....
Let a thousand flowers bloom.
