The problem is, every guy on my list belongs there, every one of them is a viable candidate. With the possible exception of Buddy Baer. Quarry could certainly take his place.
When I made the list I had suspected Norton was some kind of paper champion at some point. That is one reason he was absent. Another reason is that there are five guys already on the list who would knock Kenny cold as a cucumber, I am pretty sure of it. Against the biggest punchers he commonly went out cold. If he could take your punch, he could give you hell, but otherwise he went out cucumber-cold.
I do not know who I could take off to make room for Briggs, if the poster was serious about that name. Perhaps Chris Byrd could come off, since we already know what Ike would do to him.
Foreman claimed that Williams, Lyle and Cooney were all among the hardest hitters he had been in the ring with, the impact of whose punches shivered your whole body.
Tommy Gunn is another guy a lot of folk would like to see on there. But we saw him demolished more than once. As in the case of Norton, we saw slightly too much of him to include him.
I don't know, lads. I want to leave either Young or Byrd on there to represent the pure feather-fisted boxer. Quarry is the only one I feel strongly compelled to amend the list for and include.
When I made the list I had suspected Norton was some kind of paper champion at some point. That is one reason he was absent. Another reason is that there are five guys already on the list who would knock Kenny cold as a cucumber, I am pretty sure of it. Against the biggest punchers he commonly went out cold. If he could take your punch, he could give you hell, but otherwise he went out cucumber-cold.
I do not know who I could take off to make room for Briggs, if the poster was serious about that name. Perhaps Chris Byrd could come off, since we already know what Ike would do to him.
Foreman claimed that Williams, Lyle and Cooney were all among the hardest hitters he had been in the ring with, the impact of whose punches shivered your whole body.
Tommy Gunn is another guy a lot of folk would like to see on there. But we saw him demolished more than once. As in the case of Norton, we saw slightly too much of him to include him.
I don't know, lads. I want to leave either Young or Byrd on there to represent the pure feather-fisted boxer. Quarry is the only one I feel strongly compelled to amend the list for and include.
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