The Douglas who fought Tucker
At heavy
Spinks taller by an inch and half, Sonny weights about ten pounds more. Liston stronger, Spinks much faster and with better movement. How does it...
Tito Trinidad was, according to most, a great fighter or at least a borderline great. However he was twice made to look absolutely clueless in the...
Paez by decision
Who?
I know the default answer is Joe Louis, and 25 defenses and nearly twelve years are difficult stats to overcome. But I am not sure if it is quite...
Has there ever been a fighter who didn't make excuses after a loss or a bad performance? There can't be many, if any
Fouls such as head butting or punching low are prohibited of course. But are you allowed to fake a headbutt, or even a kick? If you threw a punch...
List instances where a fighter has scored an anomaly of a knockout or a KD, the type that he hasn't replicated since. Usually it is guys who are...
In team sports (apart from soccer) there are more breaks in the action than ever before. Mainly for commercial reasons. This development has...
I was reading a book by Tim S Grover, who was a personal trainer for Jordan, Kobe, Wade and such. In his second book he mentions how he was...
What do you think? From Fightnews: Triller: So You Think You Can Fight? Nigel Lythgoe, the television mega-producer and creative force behind...
YouTube shows several games for free and also provides good highlights from all the games so I have been able to follow the season a bit. Astros...
For once, Moorer isn't in immediate danger of getting knocked out cold, but at the same time he loses his usual edge in speed and elusiveness. I...
https://twitter.com/AIBA_Boxing/status/1374807528475885580?s=20 An overhand right is a punch that European fighters rarely use. In Europe, boxing...
I thought about this regarding Whyte vs Povetkin II. It must be pretty rare that the guy who loses by knockout is the clear betting favorite in...
Russian Olympic heavyweight gold medalist and World + European champion Tischenko faces his first world class test next Saturday against Thabiso...
Scheduled for next Saturday and not yet postponed, afaik. Should be fought in Gibraltar. Who you got? Whyte was the favorite last time and was on...
Smokin Joe was a great fighter and had a good record: Ali, Machen, Ellis, Quarry, Bonavena, Chuvalo etc is a solid list of victories. I...
Is this guy a real person? He has his own wikipedia page. He has a record of 0-32, one NC and in all his fights he has lost in the first or...
I ran into this on YouTube. The guy who got the gold medal in '88 instead of Roy hasn't had it easy. He seems like a swell, honest guy here. The...
So I read Max Baer's biography and an I ran into an interesting anecdote. Bear was preparing to fight Louis, and Ray Arcel was asked to train him...
Michael, in his light-heavy prime, steps up to face Leon Spinks that beat Muhammad Ali. How would it go?
I don't believe there can be many, since to pick a SD you need both an evenly matched pair of fighters and two different styles, which would...
Neither is a top-100 fighter in the history, but they might be in the top-300. So, which one of these ranks higher all time? Martinez with a...
I don't know if anyone follows amateurs or Olympics anymore. If you do, now it is time to stop. In 2024 Olympics there will be 60 male fighters...
I won't make another p4p list in my life, but I started to think that Canelo must be ranked among the best fighters in the world, if not at #1....
Name fighters who have dominated and towered above the rest of their divisions the most. So that for three years (or more) the fighter has 1)...
I seriously would probably pick Tyson. He still has some skills left although RJJ went easy with him
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