Butterbean was a gimmick fighter. His trajectory was pretty flat, he never really progressed, he just...was His eventuality was that he got...
Marciano's was better: By the time Walcott got to stopping Charles, he had the benefit of several previous fights with Charles. Marciano had been...
[IMG] Wow. Piaf was a class act. Look at her stuffing her mush.
[IMG] How come Title or Everlast don't stock that bike?????
.....the Texaco franchise would have made a LOT of sense. I wonder how many fight-writers even know about the Texaco thing!!! I bet Bert Sugar...
I agree with the essence of the basic premise. However...how black are the black fighters? How white are the white fighters? If this doesn't...
One of my favourites is missing: Jack Dempsey lifting weights on a pulley!!
Hopkins is starting to sound like Marciano when it comes to money.
Does he beat on that midget in your sig when he get's bored and restless???:dunno: Personally, Bute is too soft and flashy to take Pascal. Froch...
:bears: That's a class post...we need more old-school inside info like this. Quarry himself claimed to have never earned more than 750,000 USD, he...
Does Pascal now own Adamek?:warning:
My only knowledge of Chandler is an article I read in copy of Bert Sugars "Fight Shame" magazine. Sorry.:blackcloud:
Boxing is dead. Big fights in Montreal? Never would have happened in the good old days!!:slap:
I fear it may sail over quite a few heads, brother.:shadow::shadow:
Ahhhhh......the brass tack, as it were. Consider the Negro Leagues of Baseball being abolished with full integration. Sure, some of the best...
nice. Styles is how Froch won that fight with JP.....Froch was the perfect foil...he didn't try to box JP mainly cos he can't. So he just...
Larry Merchant.......:atu:
Tyson had astonishing talent and I often wonder what had happened if he had faced Lewis and Holyfield in his prime and not theirs. That said his...
He did. IIRC he had a very short pro career and then suddenly packed it in. He sold sellotape door-to-door and worked in electrics before he came...
American Light heavyweights have also been exceptionally strong. Some exceptions would be Freddie Mills, Fitzsimmons, Torres, and the two Argie...
In the immortal words of Steven Lawson Gladstone Bunce.......SHOW US YA BETTING SLIP:Alabama::Alabama:
I reckon it is a bit of both....a dip in American standards but a rise in the standards of others. I have no doubts, none, that within the next...
Fixed.
Yeah take care.
Sounds like Hatton and Preacher Graham. Hatton get's waxed by Floyd, struggles with Collazo, and it's Graham who gets old overnight and not...
Precisely. It fails to take into account that the sport, or at least the division, was not fully global until 1990 on. Within 10 years of the fall...
No they don't. What they describe perfectly is my point. Here was a guy who actually was cut out for boxing physically- there may never be a more...
If they don't, do you ask why? And besides, I could dig you up some quotes from "eminent sources", if you want. Michael Grant was an "E Lite"...
See below/above ya 3 piece.
Right....I already explained, or offered my opinion thereof, why this may be the case. Now I will throw a real spanner in the works.......Poland,...
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