I’d like it to be close and competitive with lots of two-way action but I like Crawford by clear decision. I think he might surprise people and...
Not in boxing, but Bill Maher needs that perpetually smug and condescending look removed by force.
Teo made Sugar Ray Leonard’s 14 different retirements seem sincere by comparison.
Forgot Leonard-Hearns 1: maybe the greatest ‘shifts in momentum’ fight ever. I find myself watching that one a lot.
Love it, Flo!
Toney-McCallum 1 Valdez-Briscoe 2 Duran-Barkley Arguello-Escalera 1 and 2 Harada-Jofre 1 Olivares-Kanazawa 2 Morales-Barrera 1 Gatti-Rodriguez...
Nelson v DeLeon. Accept no substitutes.
I mean, I could be wrong but honestly, Tank v Garcia didn’t raise much interest. Crawford and Spence are two guys who are just non-entities in...
I do think it’s relative. Boxing is usually low-level popular in the UK. But if you look at the BBC Sports website (as a mainstream sports...
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Roy Jones probably dropped 15 or more places in most people’s all-time p4p lists from the Tarver KO onwards. Before that, he was certainly being...
Well, they don’t need to fight 200 times to be worthy of comparison. I realise times have changed and that there are different ways to greatness....
Well, Bradman had a long career (1928-1948), but the top 5 batting averages of players who were contemporaries of his at some or a large amount of...
Yep, it would effect the overall impact a World Cup win had on a player’s career but it also is about the impact a player has on the tournament...
The thing that hurts modern fighters and their case for greatness is the lack of fights compared to fighters of the past. How can you compare a...
Yeah, I agree with all of that. They all had an argument to be in the top 3 except Floyd. There’s just no reasonable argument for a placing like...
Great post. I think there is an assumption among new fans of boxing that for all the reasons you’ve just mentioned about other sports, the same...
I do find it annoying when people say ‘he’s the greatest of all time’ when they haven’t seen everyone. It started happening ages ago with LeBron...
Great thread idea by the way, X.
As someone from England, I can think of one sport in particular which is similar to boxing in the level of reverence it has for past greats -...
It’s a fight that at least warrants PPV.
I think the difference is that when DLH went down against Hopkins he was obviously in agony and didn’t seem like he could get up - there didn’t...
He couldn’t even come up with a reason why they were in his system. At this point, he might as well just say, ‘yeah, I took them’. I mean, his...
That was an assault.
Olivares-Torres Curry-McCrory De La Hoya-Ruelas Brown-Norris 1
Camacho is a hard one to rate, I find. He was very good and his talent in the early days when he was focussed was remarkable but after the Rosario...
Benn has 'concerns' about drug testing in boxing The BBC is doing a great job of acting as a mouthpiece for Connor Benn.
The only way Canelo could fuck up a prime RJJ is if he spiked his drink.
Between 1980 and 1983, he was awesome. But the fights he most wanted, didn’t come off, mostly due to forces outside his control. The week of...
The nature of hypothetical matchups between great fighters is they are a best guess and nobody can prove that one fighter would beat another, but...
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