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Decagon wrote:

Nero3000 wrote:Peter Jackson was an excellent fighter, but I think John L. Sullivan would have knocked him out had they fought.

Based on what?

Go to the Jackson/Sullivan thread for more details.

Juan Laporte

Holman Williams.

Decagon wrote:Link?

Dunno. Just go to the first page here("past boxers"). It's right there.

tagjohnson wrote:Yaqui Lopez

Am I right in thinking Lopez has terrible back problems these day?

I would hate it if Yaqui was going through hard times for health or any other reasons. Yaqui and his contemporaries Marvin Johnson and Matt Franklin (both of whom I should have mentioned) absolutely define the ideal of a fighter to me to this day.

tagjohnson wrote:I would hate it if Yaqui was going through hard times for health or any other reasons. Yaqui and his contemporaries Marvin Johnson and Matt Franklin (both of whom I should have mentioned) absolutely define the ideal of a fighter to me to this day.

I agree.

But I am sure I remember reading about Lopez suffering with bad back problems, can anyone here confirm this?

Packy McFarland. 1 loss in 109 fights. Unbeaten for over 11 years and 102 fights !

Gotta add a couple, Cyclone Hart, vicous puncher. George Chuvalo granite chin.

KOJOE90 wrote:But I am sure I remember reading about Lopez suffering with bad back problems, can anyone here confirm this?

"Suprisingly, the worst injuries of Lopez' life did not occur in either the bull ring or the boxing ring. After retiring from boxing, he worked for a private sanitation company hurling barrels of trash into the back of a truck. Nine years later, he was forced to leave that vocation after severely injuring his back. Now, 10 years and five surgeries later, he is still in constant pain, but refuses to take prescribed painkillers and stays healthy by walking two to three miles a day, doing an abundance of laborious stretching exercises, and maintaining a sound diet." - Ring Magazine Feb. 2004

There were so many great fighters that never won titls, but back in the day a title didn't matter as much as how good you were. You could make a good living and be highly respected and never get a title shot because there were 8 titles and seveal thousand boxers; now there are several thousand titles and 8 boxers. By the wat Billy Graham should be on anybody's list of top guys with no title.

Randineous wrote:

KOJOE90 wrote:But I am sure I remember reading about Lopez suffering with bad back problems, can anyone here confirm this?

"Suprisingly, the worst injuries of Lopez' life did not occur in either the bull ring or the boxing ring. After retiring from boxing, he worked for a private sanitation company hurling barrels of trash into the back of a truck. Nine years later, he was forced to leave that vocation after severely injuring his back. Now, 10 years and five surgeries later, he is still in constant pain, but refuses to take prescribed painkillers and stays healthy by walking two to three miles a day, doing an abundance of laborious stretching exercises, and maintaining a sound diet." - Ring Magazine Feb. 2004

Thanks for the confermation Randineous.

Tom Sharkey
Packey McFarland
Joe Jeanette
Harry Wills
Jack Blackburn
Sam Langford
José Carattoli
Al Urbina
Jorge Fernández
Gerry Cooney

and others!

May be, too, the Middleweights Eduardo Lausse and Rafael Merentino, the Feather Mitsunori Seki anf Flyweight Ramón Arias