You consider LHW shallow, historically-speaking?
Just food for thought on your last two sentences --- there are plenty who would say the same of Liston & Klitschko.
Nobody as immobile as Klitschko can keep Liston, "at bay." He will have to stand & fight. I have my doubts as to whether he could win that battle....
Jones had the speed & assets to keep it his way, but I believe Moorer & could & would catch him at some point & not let him off the hook....
Liston a quitter? Total myth.
Likewise.
Holmes is over-rated by many, in contrast to his, "under-rated" claims, but the best of him was plainly better than Holyfield, for mine. I think...
I think Holmes is pretty much on even ground with the Ali who Frazier bested (very narrowly, on my scorecard) in 1971. I had that fight 8-7, with...
Bowe's best shot would be to line up quietly amongst the contenders Holmes dispatched during the early 1980's. I can see how Holmes would get just...
An ageing Quarry did do a number on a developing Lyle --- who was big & strong, with a great punch, like Bruno --- decisioning him. I think he...
Talking to me, TLC?
Just as I see it. Some are closer than others, some are arguable either way, but I think, on probabilities, I'd back him to win all of these...
Strong contentions on both sides, for the most part. I tend to think Holmes beating Bowe is the more likely scenario, but I think the chances of a...
You're right, but it wouldn't take Foreman's best punch to equal McCall's fight-ending shot. It wouldn't take Foreman best punch to equal Rahman's...
To be fair, Ali absorbed what Lewis could not --- & that, because he wasn't mobile enough to evade Foreman, in his own words. Yet, for mine, even...
It happened. Twice. Against lesser punches, from lesser punchers.
I didn't say he KO'ed everyone, just that everyone he did KO saw the punches coming. He disguised virtually nothing. I can't see the case for...
Yeah, he's pretty difficult to assess because, in the first place, he was completely dominated in his one & only showing, & because we know that...
Hey-Zeus, I know it was an unmitigated disaster against Mayweather, but even allowing for that, Marquez can defeat slightly better than this...
They usually were nimbler on their feet than the flat-footed Johnson, though. The guys who escaped for any length of time --- Gibbons, Tunney, for...
Big men weren't exactly Dempsey's weakness, incidentally --- not that there is anything more than a small size difference here.
Johnson's men were mostly smaller than he was, & typically threw one or two punches in a sitting. Watch Johnson sit back & counter, or parry the...
It's true he wasn't as durable as Ali, or as elusive as Young.
I think Johnson does just that, & that's why Dempsey doesn't blow him out in two or three (something he had the power to accomplish, if he caught...
Dempsey deposits him for the count in seven.
I don't think Lewis moved well, or was faster than Foreman. Feebles --- Everyone saw Foreman's punches coming. Everyone. It's just they...
I would have selected Diaz at the time. I would pick Pacquiao now. Fun fight. Diaz would go down swinging.
I see Hagler forcing a late stoppage, in a fairly one-sided affair. It's no knock on Pavlik, he'd certainly give it a shot, but I just can't see...
What evidence is there Foreman couldn't handle a bigger man? I think the only man Foreman ever faced --- period --- taller than himself was...
It might only take one from Foreman, though. Most interesting to me in such a fight, above all other considerations, is how Lewis approaches...
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