I wasn’t really talking about how you regard him particular so much as — which I stated in the OP — how a fairly large group of posters on here...
Some of that is just not putting his best foot forward in his more important fights. He lost to Chris Byrd in an eliminator for a title shot and...
Some on here revere him as some kind of H2H monster, but he came up short (no pun intended) when it mattered most. When his chance came against...
I’m not sure there’s a boxer I have been or still am more enthralled by than Archie Moore. He was as great as a fighter can be for as long as one...
Kenny had muscles in places most people don’t even have places.
Autobiographies: ‘Level-headed, the Tyson Fury Story’ ‘Reckless Abandon, the Hector Camacho Story’ ‘Low-Key and Low Profie, the Floyd...
Didn’t Marvin get a bad cut and box to keep from it getting messed up worse and lead to a stoppage?
Christy Martin made women’s boxing. She fought legit fights often as the chief supporting bout on undercards of Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, JC...
Seeing him with more regional circuit guys later in his career — guys who were at best opponents for the upper tier (and some not quite that but...
For me you can’t be a king of anything with zero successful title defenses of a vacant belt. Ken Norton wasn’t the king of the 1970s heavyweights,...
I got to know Jimmy a bit several years ago. Me and my brother co-promoted a club show with him. He had very slurred speech but his mind was sharp...
Tucker won a vacant belt (Michael Spinks took a more lucrative fight with Gerry Cooney and gave up the IBF belt … in part because he wasn’t going...
I don’t know anything about their fights but if he got the better of Sammy fighting inside, he was a rare bird.
I don’t know that Joe’s was the hardest as in packing the most power, but I’d rate his as maybe the most punishing. Beat people down with it and...
We’re not communicating. Another poster said it was THE GREATEST HEAVYWEIGHT FIGHT OF ALL TIME. That means the greatest heavyweight fight in the...