His age and increasing weight certainly didn't help matters either. He was already in his 30s even when he fought Mercer IIRC. Incidentally,...
Funny enough, Damiani had actually looked like a fairly decent fighter at one point in his career, around the time of his win over Tyrell Biggs...
I was basically going to say the same thing myself, but could never hope to put it so eloquently. Outside of the few future HOFers, the '80s...
Actually, he was criticized for not defending against Jimmy Dupree or Rondon when they were his top two contenders - in fact, that's what led to...
I've always felt that he basically "guards the doorway" to that heap - meaning that he just missed out on making it himself, but rates over anyone...
And yet a few pages earlier in this thread, you isolated on a brief period in 1962 and criticized the use of boxrec to judge fighters based on...
On the contrary, people living through that time were impressed by how he handled respected punchers like Quarry, Garcia (in the rematch), and...
But if you're going to hold Norton's early and late career KO losses against him, then you'd also have to consider that Williams was KO'd by the...
Agreed.
Yeah, I saw a mold of them when visiting the Boxing HOF in Canastota. Last I heard (though it was over a decade ago) Carnera still held the...
Since when does getting dropped in a fight that's otherwise dominated make a fighter "done"? You keep isolating on the fact that Foley was KO'd...
"The two or three best heavyweights in the game" were the ones that could actually beat Machen - Johansson, Folley, and Liston had already done so...
It's not simply a matter of "lumping in a couple fights" - it's a consistent trend throughout his career that he failed to win whenever he stepped...
What doesn't make sense? - new fighters were breaking into the upper echelon of the rankings (Ali and Jones), while Williams came up short when he...
What???????????? NOT good news IMO.
