1950s Heavy weights underrated?

That is all he need to be in a higher echelon than Areola!

 

What you care about is of absolutely no consequence to me whatever!

 

It is if you want to change my mind.

 

The other contenders Layne fought
Walls
Neuhaus
Mathews
Jackson
Baker
Beat him.

 

The pattern seems to be that Layne was successful up to a point, burned out while relatively young, and then fought on longer than he should have done.

What separates him from Areola, is that he was successful against contenders at some point of his career.

 

When have I ever exhorted Williams ?

 

Nice Hail Mary. Deontay is only successful because he is juiced. Do you have any insights to the sport not based on fairy tales?

 

Median weight of 189lb for Rocco fighting pensioners, with fellows like Cockell fighting the title, followed by Patterson winning the title from grandpa LHW Archie Moore, going on with Floyd fighting guys on the debut, doing a triple with the swedish CW and Liston stopping the drama by blowing the drum twice.
Yap, thats a HW-scene anyone would wish for

 

I am never going to seriously denigrate anyone who entered the ring at this level, especially as often and fearlessly as most of these guys. They were warriors and entertainers in a grueling and gruesome spectacle.

But when we get to head to head considerations, it's much the same as comparing the 1958 Cleveland Browns to the 2020 KC Chiefs. I just have to be honest. And many will say that boxing and football are apples and oranges when in reality football is as close to a combat sport as any team sport, certainly close enough to give a degree of credence to such comparisons.

 

Or Kownacki.

 

No, but recruitment of athletes has extended beyond what the ethnic pools of the East Coast boxing centers sprinkled with some rural westerns had to offer. We now have a greater representation world wide of the creme de la creme of athletic talent. Restrictions on even native US talent are a thing of the past, with more than just a token and governed representation of black athletes. And now we have Eastern European, more African, more Latin American and Southeast Asian fighters (tho the latter two don't effect the heavies too much)...

It's a different world. Time to embrace it.

 

And the culmination of this was perhaps Andy Ruiz? A cruiserweight sized man inflated with enough creme de la creme of athletic talent that he was so much heavier than a man he was shoulder height to.