Absolutely, it could have been a chain of unrelated circumstances that caused that bad luck for an entire family. I don't think anyone has...
I know it's in poor taste to say this right now, but I've wondered for many years if Chuvalo ever spoke of his own responsibility for what...
At the end of his career Liston was slow of hand and foot, and he had probably lost 20 percent of the speed and power in his jab. In his fight...
This was the era of He wasn't even close to being the best of the contenders at the time. What's important to remember is who ran boxing and why...
Tommy Jackson was easy pickings for Patterson. His being named number one contender was a strange joke. When you watch the films you can see that...
Cassius was consistently a winner. He would find a way.
I haven't got a promoter for you but I enjoyed the optimistic manager played by Nicholas Colasanto in "Fat City", in bed with his sleeping wife...
Williams's reputation was that he was a different fighter after he absorbed a couple of belts to the kisser. He would get discouraged. I think...
I don't like this matchup for Floyd. He would probably try to fight Terrell by ducking beneath Ernie's long jab and fighting on the inside, but he...
Someone besides Charles seems to be punchy. Let's put him in the ring with Izzy Klein.
Going back and re-reading Dubblechin's posts about the career of Ezzard Charles, I'm not so offended anymore. He says that when we evaluate...
I agree with you in general about Rocky in '56. He's no longer the specimen who knocked out Louis and in his final two knockouts he looked sloppy...
Jack Sharkey was featherfisted? Nah.
After getting his mouth torn apart by Sonny Liston's jab in Sonny's television debut (in Chicago Stafium), Julio Mederos retired from competitive...
Personally, I haven't watched a lightweight as dominant as Oscar. His fights at lightweight often ended with the opponent's face all busted up....