So in short you are saying you have absolutely no evidence that I selectively picked sources for my book. As such you are talking out of your ass. Tell me, in your thirty years experience in journalism how did your peers look upon journalists who made unsubstantiated claims about their colleagues work that they could not back up and refused to do so?
No. But your simpleton , childish namecalling is simply not attractive for a debutante girl of yr age.
In my 30 yrs of journ., my peers looked down their collective noses at the author who smears others and revises history to make his or her point. Although I must say, the liberal media in this country does exactly that in the current era. And I told you how you colored the book. Are you obtuse? I think so. BTW, explain to yr best bud Flea that childish name calling is meaningless in adult conversation and he really should stay in the romper room w/ the other kids.:hi:
You keep saying I revise history and colored my book but then admit you have absolutely no evidence of me doing so. As such I can only assume your 30 years in journalism was working for the National Enquirer.
What a sad, pathetic wanker you are. I don't know how you know anything about me, considering I don't really remember you at all. Just a troll.
You've called me a girl in your last two posts. Do you not see the irony in that? Also you're clearly getting very angry. Chill out old timer.
No. It"s the way you act that makes me think of my daughtors when they were younger. They would get mad and start calling names when they were losing an arguement. And 57 is not that old. :hi: BTW, Flea, don't YOU wonder why the Greb vs. Many thread keeps getting pulled? Ever heard of the word CENSORSHIP? I put it up again. Let's see if it lasts and Klomp answers.
Prior to entering war service, he beat elite fighters like Al Hostak x3 & georgie abrams to unify the mw title & restore stability to the division after the title had been fractured for about a decade. he also beat a hof ex-champ in Apostoli. These are not really fair assessments of Graziano, or @ least how he was perceived @ the time. he wasn't simply popular "in a Gatti kind of way," he was considered perhaps the most terrifying KO artist in the sport below hw & was coming off a 2-rnd destruction of the reigning ww champ, whose only previous losses were close 1s to SRR & had never before been stopped. according to this article from about 5 months before their 1st fight, "Zale of Indiana is the champion and Rocky Graziano of New York the logical contender." on top of all else, Graziano was actually favored to win their 1st fight. I wouldn't necessarily argue w/ some1 who thought Graziano's ranking was inflated & his legacy certainly hasn't endured to the extent that Burley's or LaMotta's has, but I don't think it's entirely fair to retroactively discredit Zale's legacy based on revised perceptions of Rocky. Dismissing Graziano as a "cherry pick" would be akin to claiming Cooney was a "cherry pick" for Holmes or Mugabi was a "cherry pick" for Hagler.
Graziano was a colorful guy and a puncher but his resume is very weak … like you said, his big win was KOing a welterweight …Tony was at least a much more vetted fighter not to mention a lot older when they fought.
That could be said of other title challengers who were big in their day, but don't fare as well under retrospective reassessment, like Cooney & Mugabi. The difference is the champions who defended against those challengers don't get retroactively labelled as "cherry pickers" for how their opponents are perceived decades later.
Here are some contemporary views of Rocky's worth as a title challenger prior to the 1st Zale fight. the day before KOing Servo: "Outside the heavy division, Rocky is considered the mightiest puncher in boxing today. But Servo has never been kayoed and claims never to have been knocked off his feet!" Jack Cuddy (UP)'s day-after account of the Servo fight: "Like a hammer-slayer on the loose, dynamic Rocky Graziano battered world welterweight champion Marty Servo into a helpless hulk in less than two rounds last night, thereby earning a shot at Tony Zale’s middleweight crown in mid-July" Normally, it's the champion who goes out of his way to avoid a challenger perceived in this way that gets derided as a cherry picker.
You keep ignoring the fact that Rocky fought a 144 pound guy for this tremendous KO win.. be serious. It actually reminds me matchup wise of Gatti vs Gamache ..
a 144 lb opponent who had twice gone the distance w/ SRR & may have given him 1 of his toughest tests. he was no more flawed as an opponent than the corpses that Cooney used to propel himself to 1 of the biggest fights in history.