“Bad” Brad,
How did you score Chavez-Hernandez? What do you think of a Chavez-Pacquiao match-up?
Thanks and best regards,
Ferdie
Ferdie,
I thought the fight was close, but agreed with the judge that had the fight 115-113 for Chavez. Chavez never really impressed me, but in his gallant defeat to Erik Morales, he impressed the heck out of me. He has a very solid chance to be a champion again.
If Manny were to fight Chavez, I think it would be a war, but Chavez would go toe to toe with Manny to prove his toughness and that would cost him losing by mid round KO or TKO on cuts.
Brad,
Now that you were wrong on your pick for Kostya Tszyu vs Ricky Hatton, what do you think?
Neville London, England
Neville,
You are so right. My pick was way off, but I give Ricky all the credit in the world for his overpowering performance of a truly HOF champion in Kostya. I thought the fight was OK, but the thing that impressed me the most is the way they acted after the fight showing true class along with sportsmanship. The sky is the limit for Ricky and he nailed it when he said, “he needs to come and fight in the US”.
George,
I just read your response to Ali fights and I disagree with you. I think Jimmy Young beat him by a close decision. What are your thoughts?
Tony S
Slow down a little Tony S. Just let the math do the talking in this instance first.
We’re speaking of vintage Ali. My answer, if read closely, are about having the Ali before his departure from the ring, and the three years afterward blamed for being kept from the ring because of exercising his inherent right for religion.
It stands to reason for the span of those two decades up to leading to the third Kenny Norton fight, no one I know disputes saying Ali was not at his best then. Jimmy Young’s fight I remember in Landover, Md. April 30th ’76 was in the exact location in which Ali made a point of it to return there back at the scene beating the Spaniard European Heavyweight Alfredo Evangelista the following year May ’77… Which suggest that Ali wouldn’t have wanted it any other way, and those actions certainly are not ones from a loser. Jimmy Young was a cutie and a dandy, but Ali was the master stealing those close rounds and putting them right in the bank.
I still stand by that third fight as Norton’s finest hour in which a prime Ali could have lost.
George,
I enjoyed your interview with Saoul Mamby. How come no one has that win he recently had over in Thailand?
Dinky
I should hope Dinky to have an answer to that one later. Personally, fans should be more outraged for obstructions to make his living, then the progress he’ll embark to making abroad.
I believe that until a referee who knows when to stop a fight, does, or until he (Mamby) decides that for himself that he’s had enough; then nobody should play George Burns playing the part of God in there to say later that they’d did you any favors.
George,
Today I read an article on RSR about James Braddock. How would he do against today’s weak heavyweights?
Tom Shankston Erie, PA
That was Lance’s story on James J. Braddock you’re asking on. Tremendous question Tom. Jim (James Walter) Braddock was a fighter who packed a wallop; along with his sizable handy seventy-eight inch reach advantage.
One impressive win was against the Light Heavy John Henry Lewis, same guy that fought Louis because the money was really inside of the heavyweight categories to find someone with a productive record like he had.
Braddock was only an inch and an half taller than Dariusz Michalczewski, who recently retired, with Braddock well out in front with that lengthy reach of his beating him by eight full inches! Noticing that reach advantages are what kept Braddock in the thick of things, being amongst today’s heavyweights he’d fair actually much better then most would think. He had an uncanny delivery to surprise you with an unseen sneakier punch and I’d make him a serious threat in today’s crop anywhere in the circumference top fifteen or twelve heavyweights.
Interesting to note is that fighters back then fought. If they’d lost a match they weren’t ruined by it. They’d just get right back into their winning ways.
George,
How would Sandy Sadler do today as a featherweight?
Jerry Goldberg
It’s a funny memory for me, because an old timer I knew so many years ago had talked with me on that same question you posed. In his eyes Sandy was the best featherweight he’d ever saw even better than Willie Pep!
He did make one point however. He told me that Sandy loved fighting Pep more than Pep did Saddler. I’d often wonder about it.
Sandy would’ve beaten so many of the featherweights around today that you’d have to pay the division even more money from keeping challengers on having divorces, or kept them as far away from beating their estranged wives.
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