i`ll go for sven ottke vs Gerald mcclellan :KO: How about Ottke V Eubank. Dullest imaginary fight between two talented boxers I can come up with. It's either twelve rounds of both waiting for the other man to make the first move or Eubank becomes frustrated and impatient, like he did in the second ...

Presumably Ali knows that he is fighting twenty five rounds against a tough guy with good stamina so he'll train and pace himself expecting a twenty five round fight. While it is a big increase over fifteen boxers could do it in the past, so I don't think Ali would have much trouble adapting. Given ...

orbtastic wrote:Yeah, think it's his surname though.

Title actually, he's Thane of Lennox.

Lennox is also a surname (as in Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics), they often get used as forenames, mine for example and my paternal grandfather Sinclair.

Joe Frazier. He prevailed on the biggest stage in boxing history, against a truly great fighter at a time when both men were nearest their peaks and fully aware that this was THE moment. However, not that much later, he was demolished by Foreman, maybe Frazier had faded a bit but it wasn't even com...

Robert Thomas (career 16-57-4) has two split decision wins over Charles Brewer (career 40-11), Brewer was later IBF Super Middleweight champion. At the time of the first fight Thomas was 9-41-3 and Brewer 14-0 and at the time of the second Thomas was 14-41-3 and Brewer 14-1. Immediately before the f...

I'm surprised so many people are including Spinks in their top 4 LHWs of all-time Why? don't understand why he would be. IMO, Moore, H. Johnson, Charles, Foster, Bivins, etc. deserve to be ranked higher. I think Spinks was better than Foster, both dominated Light Heavyweight in their times, so ther...

How about Undisputed Light Heavyweight Champion, Linear and IBF Heavyweight Champion 31-1 (21 KO) Michael Spinks? Became WBA Light Heavyweight Champ in his seventeenth fight, added the WBC title in his twenty-third and added the newly created IBF title in his twenty-fifth. Then moved up to Heavyweig...

You appear to think these coincidences mean something, they don't they're just coincidences. If you trawl a large enough mass of data you find coincidences. Combined with the other bizarre comments, such as that all events are meaningful, you have made that puts you pretty clearly in the loon categ...

As usual Mr. 'attorney' you are correct - it was 'Brett Paul Dunbar' (and a couple others) that called me a 'loon' without asking me to clarify my statement... I apologize 'BoxBuzz' - please accept my apology... By the way Mr. raylawpc, what is your feedback/opinion about the 'verdict' from yesterd...

To Giancarlo: Hope I didn’t scare you away – I guess you are not much of a ‘conspiracy theorist’ (lol). That’s fine – if you are interested (but did not want to ask about) the most popular conspiracy ‘topics’ – UFOs, JFK assassination and the Apollo 11 Moon landing – well, all the (vital) details a...

Ali / Dempsey It depends which Ali it is the version that fought the first Spinks fight gets annihilated against any halfway decent opponent. While the Dempsey that fought Tunney had severe stamina problems. Let's specify Dempsey about the time he beat Willard against the Ali that beat Foreman in a...

Liston vs Patterson
Foreman vs Frazier

kal.majeed wrote:The three most notable “Sugar” boxers in history are Ray Robinson, Ray Leonard and Shane Mosley.

There is a fourth boxer known as sugar who is comparable in fame Ultiminio Ramos (Featherweight champion 1963-65).

Heres the premise, Take any two legends, and compare who wouldve been a champ in their class during more eras (each decade representing a new era). Im going with Heavies, because its a fairer contrast. Rules are they have to be able to, in their prime, beat someone who held the title during that de...

I'm going to go against my normal picks and give Dempsey the slight edge over 15. Lewis would stand a better chance of holding out for a points win over 12, but as hes never done 15 it may tell. Also Dempsey is a one off amongst the old timers, and smaller heavyweights. He was a savage fighter in h...

Difficult question. If you send them all back in a time machine to Johnson's prime, then he has some huge advantages. 4. Longer fights. How would Lennox Lewis or George Foreman have coped with a 45 round fight. Johnson himself couldn't handle a 45 round fight. The longest fight he had was the Willa...

in their World Bantamweight Championship match on 2nd December 1950 Vic Toweel knocked down Danny O'Sullivan 14 times, 8 of the knockdowns were reportedly scored in the fifth round, the fight was eventually stopped in the tenth round. Toweel asked "What must I do to keep him down?" This wa...

Silvio Branco

I have no problem with it, it's not like any modern refs would let a fight go on after a fighter was down 3 times in a round anyway in 99% of cases. On the 29th April 2003 in a French Cruiserweight Championship bout between Merick Roberge and Frederic Serrat, Roberge was legitimately down three tim...

Ali/Moore wasn't a title fight. But Archie was a good place to look. Patterson/Moore is worth a gander. I think, from memory, Patterson-Moore holds the record at Heavyweight. It was wider than Foreman-Moorer. Briggs-Foreman was wider. The age gap was just over a month shy of 23 years. Briggs born 4...

jaclem2 wrote:..ezzard...good choices. add liston.

David Haye doesn't seem to have suffered much from losing to Carl Thompson.

Ryan Rhodes TKO 8 Lorant Szabo (18 July 1998) is labeled as being for the WBO Intercontinental Light Middleweight Title, however the fight was above the light middleweight limit and Szabo's previous fight and Rhodes next fight are both shown as being for the WBO Intercontinental Middleweight Title. ...

B. Have Norton fight Young again, this time billing it as a title fight. (Which would have odd, especially if Young would have won the rematch.) This is what the IBF did with Nate Campbell-Robbie Peden I & II. Peden knocked out Campbell in the fifth round of a Featherweight eliminator in 2004, ...

1978-1980 it was Holmes. I don't understand the logic that says that a linear title can survive a fighters retirement. By that logic Gene Tunney is still Heavyweight champion. If you retire, you lose the linear championship. You can make a distinction between a fighter who is retired and one who is...

Actually it would be 7 since Michael Spinks won a gold medal in the 1976 Olympics and won the IBF heavyweight title. It would be 8 if you count Ray Mercer winning the WBO title. I don't myself. I keep thinking there may be someone else, but can't think of anyone. Two more, Lennox Lewis and Wladimir...