Depends on how you define casual and hardcore. I don’t consider the mainstream to be casual boxing fans. I don’t even give the average talking...
Roy with the narrow edge in both categories currently, though I’ve previously had him below Whitaker in overall greatness. I’ve got Roy 19 spots...
I call it “the Mike McCallum effect” any time this happens with previously underrated fighters who finally get their time in the sun. He’s my...
Bratton and Lane won titles, though. I think Turner was likely every bit as good as half the Murderer’s Row. Wade, Chase, and Lytell don’t...
I’m obviously fucking around. Tremendous fighter. I do think he’s enjoying his Mike McCallum revisionist period on certain forums, but it what...
Puuuuuuure bum.
He got beat up by a teenage novice who was still half a street fighter.
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Say what you will about Margarito, but he was a tough bastard with a hell of a chin. That was true throughout his entire career. It was never true...
Oooh man, never thought of it. Gonna go with Ambers. He was slick and wily enough on the outside to keep Arguello resetting most of the night. And...
Monzon had 4 inches in height and 4 inches in reach on Napoles, so the disparity there is actually smaller. The weight difference was bigger,...
I think Basilio is live against every welterweight to ever live.
A difference of 4.5 inches in height and 5 inches in reach. A small Lightweight who was already starting to slide vs a big Lt. Welter square in...
De La Hoya wasn’t really bigger or a better puncher than Hernandez, not for sheer power anyway. And I think it was Hernandez rough housing and...
Likely Oscar by Decision.
He was an idiot.
I’d probably favor Shane in a close one.
Honestly, I think Napoles loses to both.
Really? I thought the SD was bogus, but I remember a good two way boxing match. McGirt took him to school from beginning to end.
Yeah, Tszyu was definitely a boogeyman to the pure boxing types. Southpaws, too. I got into some fierce battles in Whitaker/Tszyu threads back in...
All 3 judges scored it 7-0, with Napoles scoring a knockdown in round 6. Not entirely sure what a score of 7-0 amounts to in a 10 rounder, but I...
I’d say Kelley was pretty clearly Hamed’s best win.
I’d love to see the Napoles fight. Perkins claims he was robbed but I put no stock in his word whatsoever. You oughta read his interviews.
Great stuff, George. The only thing I’ll say is that Laguna’s right hand lead was never really a counter punch. Nor was it proven to be even as...
That Rosi fight was a treasure. Watched it as soon as it got posted. He lived up to expectations for me. Even fought pretty similar to what I’d...
Agreed. Drayton was really durable, too. Just went the full 15 with Matthew Hilton prior to Jackson turning him into the victim of my all time...
I’d say Hamed gets a lot more underrated by hardcore boxing fans nowadays. I’m not trying to make him a mainstay in the ATG conversations again,...
It should be Rosario, but I just don’t feel right about it. I don’t see Jackson coming off second best in slugging wars to a Jose Luis Ramirez...
Shit, let’s see what comes off the end of the pen: Zapata Lora Jofre Argüello Duran Whitaker Napoles Hagler Conteh Saad Muhammad
Duran Ali Monzon Gomez Arguello Canto Napoles Foster Zarate Cervantes I take it we’re excluding Frazier and Foreman because reasons.
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