"Just because a boxer might be good, doesn't mean they are automatically getting rated by The Ring." Obviously not. Nor being no good means they...
Man Machine--you are satisfied with you arguments and think them convincing. Okay. I am satisfied with mine and think them convincing. They...
"The only one Dempsey avoiding that mattered was Wills." If one thinks Langford and Godfrey didn't matter. The problem would be w/o Marciano how...
My take on Dempsey is that Marciano really helps, as you say, via "deflects a lot of flack" With no Marciano, there would have been no white...
very interesting, Archie Moore--likely to be heavyweight champion for 2 to 3 years in the mid-fifties. Walcott--probably holds the title for...
"political manuevers that defied merit/popular opinion." No doubt about popular opinion. Merit concerning Adams and Jackson is far harder to...
It is easy and valid to criticize a champion's behavior, but this whole situation shows that getting the politicians involved might be a cure that...
I don't think so. Jimmy Young beat Foreman, and a lot of observers thought he did enough to beat Ali, although that is of course debatable,...
I liked the above post as it is factually argued, I will busy for a while. I hope to be able to respond on Saturday.
Less like Martin Van Buren, who was in fact a legit president, than someone like Lewis Cass or Horatio Seymour or Alf Landon. "World champion"...
Something which just occurred to me. The guy in the street had no way of looking up the records of a fighter in those days. If the raters said X...
"the above are broad and assumptive statements." Yes. This is not a courtroom. It is just shooting the breeze on the internet. And I used the...
Pierre Charles-----was a three times European heavyweight champion and defended that title nine times. From 1929 to 1935 he went 31-4, losing in...
Larry Gains-----starting at the beginning of 1925 to the end of 1932, Gains goes 64-5-2, including wins over Max Schmeling, Bud Gorman, Romero...
I think the weakness of your whole argument is that the ratings are totally American centered. I would say for two reasons. One might be bias or...
