"i know its only sparring but u can see when g-man spars james toney that while at moments jt looks to confuse g-man that a good amount of time g-man is able to just throw his weight around and force toney into the ropes and launch combos. i think this fight on pure boxing that mccallum would h...

That's insane. Thanks for picking up on it.
I'm also thinking that is going to be the future, if it isn't already. 'You mean that Napoleon wasn't the first man on the moon? But I read it on the internet!'

John, I happened to be doing research on Henry 'The Loveable One' Hearns when I saw that he'd had a fight with the Romanian prospect Mircea Simon. Which led me to Simon's page on BoxRec. As it happens, Simon's KO of Hearns doesn't appear. The last fight you do have listed for Simon was immediately p...

Wouter, Thanks for writing and for the information. Perhaps my post was confusing but I do state that Carlos Silva's full name was, in fact, 'Jose Carlos da Silva' and that he was clearly not the other Brazilian Jose Carlos da Silva, who was a southpaw. I am indeed aware that records from South Amer...

I recently watched a fight between the young James Toney and a Brazilian by the name of Carlos Silva (Jose Carlos Da Silva). According to the announcers[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tMdl6uDDGQ], Silva was a 'South American Champion' with a record of 16-3, 16-4 after the loss to Toney. BoxRec, ho...

BoxRec lists Toney at 198 for the fight. In the prefight thought, commentator says that Toney came in over 200 and that it cost him something from the purse.

True that Toney wasn't the fastest guy and did struggle a bit with slick boxers who used a lot of movement. But he had heavy hands and was very disciplined - always paid attention to the body and stayed patient. Nunn tried to keep away from Toney from about the 6th but it was too late - Toney had ta...

Some of the arguments being mustered against Pryor are shamefully poor. I'd like to rebut them as much as I can. 1. The Panama Lewis 'black bottle' incident isn't much of an indictment. Even if Lewis had provided Pryor with a stimulant in the water bottle, there's no way the effect would have appear...