Another would be Larry Holmes. God awful to look at. Scrawny neck, weedy shoulders and toothpick arms, a soft mid-section and a wide (and it grew...
Not when it stacks upto Wilde's accomplishments. The victory youre espousing isnt even a highlight, its a centrepiece of Johnson's career. Thats...
My mistake. And you havent seen a quality fighter carry a low right since, what, Joe Louis' day?
Good one :lol: Almost as irrelevant as it is funny...and thats saying a whole lot.
So its excusable to carry a low left in 2011, but not in 1926? You dont penalise an Ali, or a Mayweather if their left is low?
Tua himself deserves consideration. Not just for his oft-atrocious weight, but being so short (and short-armed) and essentially resembling a Lucky...
The ship has crashed and you gents are arguing whether its better to have lost an arm or a leg in the impact. The fact that either Johnson or...
And to clarify, your explanation as to how Tunney escaped punishment is just that nobody could fight back then? Harry Greb and Jack Dempsey...
No, I dont.
Far worse? Is that why he was knowingly using PEDs? He beat your boy even on the gear, Neil. The whole forum knows who the better boxer, with...
It was a more exciting bout, doubtless, but he was far smarter second go-round.
I'll get to your full post when time permits, but for right now, a low left is a hallmark of more primitive times? Kindly explain Roy Jones,...
How convenient -- and what a crock. How much does the fact De La Hoya insisted on a KO in his first bout with Mosley, and fought to a gameplan...
You say that like it was some kind of robbery. In reality it was a 1-point swing either way, no gift for Mayorga at all. And this is ignoring the...
If you cant beat Mayorga, you're not getting past Trinidad.
I read with interest recently that Quarry once stated he was, "absolutely sure," he would have beaten Marciano. Thoughts on Quarry's take, gents?
Who to choose, who to choose...
Any favourite over 12? Looks a close one to me.
It makes me wonder how the toughest of the tough, (comparatively) modern age (your Fraziers, your Haglers and your Holyfields) would do back then....
One of the great tragedies of Boxing, IMO, that Greb was never filmed in the ring. That CV is positively mouth-watering. To read Tunney's own,...
Lyle-Ruddock may've been the most entertaining. If Quarry is at his very best, I honestly don't give Mercer much of a chance. Maybe an...
Holyfield with the better list of guys, but Lewis, the more consistent. In terms of HW legacy, they are both at the back-end of my top-10, both...
Also, Greb was just an absolute freak of a fighting machine. He quite arguably has the greatest resume in al of history (people should stop &...
That washes for the first fight. When a serious Dempsey got back into serious fighting condition, disposed of a young, hungry Jack Sharkey, &...
What do you see missing in Tunney, present in current fighters, when you watch him?
Sharkey was actually a pretty good fighter --- he had talent, but let it get mired in inconsistency. Jack Johnson once stated, for whatever it's...
It's a shame so much energy is expended on the Johnson fight, since Jeffries' real career, as said, is arguably the most fantastically condensed...
Braddock and Michael Spinks werent far off making my list. Even for those who dont rate Jeffries head-to-head, he achieved way too much to be...
Looking again at my list, Id probably say youre right. At 7-0-1 and having achieved next-to-nothing after besting Ali, I think he probably is...
I cant stand Lewis' loss to Rahman. It made one of the first of the current breed of fat (not under-trained, but actually fatter than the average...
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