I suspect that Jim Corbett would have been the first casualty.
He would be favorite over all of them, in his prime, but he might lose to some of them.
His fight against Jack Sharkey was almost certainly on the level. Go back and watch it. Yes Sharkey had the better of teh earlier in teh...
The evidence is very weak.
I don't think that he is particularly close to being the worst lineal heavyweight champion. Some lineal heavyweight champions really only have...
What a missed opportunity Fury Joshua was. That would have been the standout, if it had happened at the rights time.
My take on those decades. In the 40s a lot of the big fights didn't happen because of the war. Nobody's fault of course, except perhaps...
I might be more interested in his opinions in a decade of so. I presume these picks are limited to heavyweight?
Name three.
A bit to unpack here. The key thing that made the 70s the greatest decade, was that the top fights got made, with very few exceptions. The...
Yes but you have to factor their ages in. Baer turned pro at a very young age, while Usyk turned professional much later, and fought at some...
This is a common misconception. Johnson beat many men who were bigger than him.
The rule might very loosely hold true, but there are more exceptions than you think, and they are not as great as you think they need to be. I...
Even if Itauma is as good as some people hope, Louis would take him on experience alone right now. So how good is he. Personally I have high...
