Which Non-Boxing Athlete Could Come Best To Boxing Cold

[HOUDINI563]

Hitting a ball is quite different than being punched in the face. Only a select few athletes would be able to ignore punishment like that and fire back to be victorious.

[QueensburyRules]

Good examples of tall hitters there. Thomas in his prime put up Williams'esque numbers for sure. Winfield was just fantastic and could have been an HOFer in about any sport.

Growing up in Chicago, Cubs fans a bit older than me used to talk about the tape-measure shots Dave Kingman would launch out of Wrigley. Power for days he had.

- - Sky King.

Hack Wilson the best 5-6, 200lb size 6 shoe player in history set the RBI record in one of the top ten seasons in baseball history.

Had a grudge match scheduled against White Sox rival Art Shires, a first baseman/part time murderer that triggered the then Tyny Tyrant in charge of MLB, Commish, the appropriately misnamed Mountain Landis who never met a man he didn't want to put in jail. Landis outraged at the bad publicity this bout would bring to the holy sport of baseball, he promptly passed a law banning any baseball player caught boxing.

BTW, Frank Chance as the Greatest Cubbie ever, it ain't arguable, so don't try, why John L and Jim Corbett reportedly quite impressed with his off season boxing chops. I take it he fought in the private clubs quite popular then or fought under an assumed name.

[Willie Pep 229]

- - Sky King.

Hack Wilson the best 5-6, 200lb size 6 shoe player in history set the RBI record in one of the top ten seasons in baseball history.

Had a grudge match scheduled against White Sox rival Art Shires, a first baseman/part time murderer that triggered the then Tyny Tyrant in charge of MLB, Commish, the appropriately misnamed Mountain Landis who never met a man he didn't want to put in jail. Landis outraged at the bad publicity this bout would bring to the holy sport of baseball, he promptly passed a law banning any baseball player caught boxing.

BTW, Frank Chance as the Greatest Cubbie ever, it ain't arguable, so don't try, why John L and Jim Corbett reportedly quite impressed with his off season boxing chops. I take it he fought in the private clubs quite popular then or fought under an assumed name.

Johnny Evers was the greatest Cubbie ever.

[GhostofDempsey]

Jose Canseco earned over a million dollars for an amateur fight where he was stopped in < 10 seconds. Event coordinators believe he took a dive as he was guaranteed $50K up front and another $50K if he won. He was also guaranteed a share of PPV revenue if they broke their old record, which they did. About ten years ago he sent his twin brother in his place to fight in a charity boxing event where he received $5K. Some of these athletes think they can use boxing to gain some clout and Canseco was a classic example of an athlete who found a way to scam boxing and come out ahead.

Nolan Ryan got some licks in on Robin Ventura when he charged the mound. Could the man who threw a 100+ MPH fast ball been trained to throw a right hand haymaker with the same efficiency?

I would think a few scrappy hockey players could have crossed over. Howie Long was a strong athletic defensive end. Possible he could have been trained as a HW. Same with Lawrence Taylor.

[QueensburyRules]

Johnny Evers was the greatest Cubbie ever.

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[Quercusalba]

- - Sky King.

Hack Wilson the best 5-6, 200lb size 6 shoe player in history set the RBI record in one of the top ten seasons in baseball history.

Had a grudge match scheduled against White Sox rival Art Shires, a first baseman/part time murderer that triggered the then Tyny Tyrant in charge of MLB, Commish, the appropriately misnamed Mountain Landis who never met a man he didn't want to put in jail. Landis outraged at the bad publicity this bout would bring to the holy sport of baseball, he promptly passed a law banning any baseball player caught boxing.

BTW, Frank Chance as the Greatest Cubbie ever, it ain't arguable, so don't try, why John L and Jim Corbett reportedly quite impressed with his off season boxing chops. I take it he fought in the private clubs quite popular then or fought under an assumed name.

Someone concerned about Hack Wilson's drinking once demonstrated to him if you place a worm in water, it swims about, but if you put it in whiskey, it dies. Wilson responded, "If you drink whiskey, you won't get worms."

- "Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:
Tinkers, to Evers, to Chance"

[QueensburyRules]

- - Rocky failed to make the Cubbies in his 1949 Spring tryout, and the rest is history as he knocked 49 dingers out of the park.

[QueensburyRules]

Someone concerned about Hack Wilson's drinking once demonstrated to him if you place a worm in water, it swims about, but if you put it in whiskey, it dies. Wilson responded, "If you drink whiskey, you won't get worms."

- "Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:
Tinkers, to Evers, to Chance"

- - Trio of bear cubs and fleeter than birds,
Tinker, Evers, and Chance.

[Willow The Wisp]

Charlie Powell, Sully Montgomery, Monte Munn, Seth Mitchell, George Trafton, Mike Balogun, Solomon Haumono, Jack Torrance, Willis Meehan, Alonzo Highsmith, Leif Larsen, Craig Wolfley, George Linberger, Roy Young, Tom Zbikowski, Javon Langford, Sonny Bill Williams, Adam Fogerty, Roy Bedwell, Adam Braidwood, Jerome LeBanner, **** Tiny Powell, Ray Richards, John Clark, Earl Nolan, Al Nesser, Kaspars Kambala, Tom Potsy Jones, Paul Gallen and Frank Gotch are a few who would smash the delusional blowhard Wilt Chamberlain to bits, in or out of the ring. Easily for most of them. Even if Wilt had quit basketball in 64' and was given 4 years to convert.

And possibly.... Tom Payne, Mark Gastineau, Duke Slater, Ed Williams, Monsterman Evrett Eddy, Adrian White, Al Spohrer, Jeremy Schruggs, Art Shires, Ted Reiter, Paul Bonson, Frank Bialowas, Liem Messam, Roy Father Lumpkin and Ernest Tex Hamer are a few more who just may have creamed Chamberlain as well.

[Willow The Wisp]

Maybe even Too Tall.