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In my view, this was Holmes' greatest performance. Shavers was lucky to lay a glove on him that day.

@chefdj09 I must correct you on your statement about his being broke. Not long after Bobby Kennedy's death, he sold everything he had and lived in a trailer at Big Sur, California. What money he had left he spent making a movie that was never released. He even sold the rights to songs that had...

@mkl62 It definitely should have!

@frankothemountain The drummer is the legendary Hal Blaine.

He needs to watch the films of Ali 1960-1967. Ali was not constantly on the ropes back then.

It's hard to really tell from this distance, but Lanza really looked bloated in the open coffin. Was he really that overweight when he died, or was it possibly an error in embalming?

@FRSFreeState Are you speaking of General "Bombs Away" LeMay? I don't know how many times I've seen clips of that Pittsburgh press conference when the General wouldn't shut up about nuclear weapons and even Governor Wallace couldn't stop him. It would have been great for a "Laugh-In" skit if it...

How sad that it didn't end there. You can't blame Louis, though; he was trying to keep the IRS off his back. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but it is my understanding that the night he fought Ezzard Charles he didn't want to come out of his dressing room but was told to do so or he wouldn't g...

How Louis responded to the Schmeling loss is proof of his standing as an all-time great regardless of weight classification. For most fighters, a beating like that would mean the end, and by Louis' own admission he remembered nothing after round five. To come back, win the title, and defend it ...

The greatest heavyweight championship round since Round 15 of Holmes-Norton.

I followed Holmes from the time he beat Ken Norton in '78. He started to show signs of decline as early as '83 against Witherspoon, and in subsequent fights before the losses to Spinks and Tyson, Holmes looked more and more under seige against the likes of Bonecrusher Smith and Carl Williams tha...

@mannybrucesalvador Fernandez did get a shot at the lightweight belt in 1977 against Duran, who knocked him out in the 13th round.

@narudduran Couldn't agree more. I'm thinking the old New York rules of scoring may have been relaxed by that point. The way Don Dunphy talked during the first Frazier-Ali fight in '71, the scoring rules favored aggression. The way Fernandez fought that night, sadly, was a prophecy of what was...

Sinatra once said that Lou had "the smoothest chops in the business." No better evidence of this than this classic track.

@1963Austria Actually this was recorded in June 1970. Just my opinion, but vocally he was never better than during this year. By '71, there was a disturbing wobble in his vocal production, clearly the result of overwork and onsetting ill health due to increasing drug usage. Listen to track by ...

This was a travesty of a decision. Duran won this thing, in my opnion, running away. If you guys who run boxing want it to return to prominence, do two things: 1) restore the championship distance to 15 rounds, and 2) insist that all scoring be based on the old New York system used when MSG ra...

@danboy66in Except in this fight, in my view Duran won. This was a travesty of a decision.

@LaughingOTI80 So Elvis is not a musical genius, based on your logic, because he didn't write his own music. Just curious, but Sinatra didn't write his own music, either. Should he be held to the same standard? Interested in hearing your response.

@Elvisvivant I couldn't agree more with this analysis. This standing ovation at the beginning of the show is heartbreaking to watch. In the nearly 35 years since he died, many have tried to attach significance to him in both significant ways and ridiculous ways. Folks, none of that mattered to...

@Zesh911xHD By 1974, despite having trained very hard for the Frazier rematch, Ali no longer had the legs to dart out of trouble. On top of that, the way Ali clinched was illegal, and unlike Tony Perez in Fight 2, Mercante in Fight 1 and Padilla in Fight 3 would not allow Ali to clinch that way ...

According to Cosell in his book "I Never Played the Game", prior to this fight Angelo Dundee went into Gonzalez's dressing room and saw that he was hanging out with his family instead of warming up. Dundee then switched Leonard's gloves from 8-ounce Everlast to 6-ounce Reyes gloves (ideal for pu...

@PeekaPeep He also beat Hearns because by 1988, Hearns had seen better days as a fighter. I think it was foolish for Hearns to go to 175 for Andries and then to come back down to 160 for Roldan. That jump up then down took a toll on Hearns' legs.

@cazonetta Still, the Colonel should have looked at the chart position and seen the handwriting on the wall; this song peaked at No, 21 on the Billboard Hot 100, the first original A-side which failed to place in the Top 20 for Elvis since he began charting nationally in 1956. The landscape had ...

I never figured what this song was about, but I always get fired up when the USC Band comes in.

@blite13 The reason he shows no signs is that he was one of the greatest and most underrated defensive fighters ever to lace up the gloves; he certainly made better use of head and upper-body movement than anyone who ever fought out of a slugger's stance. The beating he took from Hearns was so u...

@cnh2132 I couldn't agree more. Remember that he did go to the Soviet Union not long after the Holmes-Norton bout to meet with Brezhnev and box exhibitions against amateur Russian heavyweights, and from my understanding he took a lot of punishment in those exhibitions. On top of that, the train...

Say what one will about Ali, pro or con. Few heavyweights in history matched Ali for resolve and determination, and this final round proves it. When he went back to the corner after the 14th round, Ali had nothing left. He was hurt and staggering. To do what he did in this final round was eve...

@RaananVolesPianist My comments about the corporate structure are more than just "political stuff." This is reality, and our country is worse off for it. Why do you think there's an "Occupy" movement right now?

I think the words of the late Floyd Patterson summed it up: "Of all the heavyweights ever, he was the best at taking a punch. And he took shots for a long time. When he lost his legs, he lost his defense. He's been hit in the ring for twenty years, my God. The brain slaps up against the skul...

@songster56 Agreed on the 1950s version of Sinatra and the two recordings you mentioned, though on "To Love and Be Loved" his higher range sounds a little forced. And I don't think interpretation and phrasing came because his pipes failed at times in later years; it came from age and experience....

@VinylToVideo He did sound more like a dramatic tenor, but the fact that he pursued lyric roles almost exclusively explains why he maintained top quality as a singer until his final concert in May 1982. Peerce did not wish to push his voice, a mistake that Jose Carreras paid dearly for.

I was 10 when this happened. Remember it like it was yesterday. RIP Elvis.

He's certainly bulky around the middle, but in the face in no way does he look as puffy as he did on stage during that tour. Can anyone explain what happened between the plane and the stage?

@NoGoodBoyo1000 I couldn't agree more. The Holmes fight took everything out of Norton.

Frazier showed awesome courage in the face of one of the most devastating displays of punching in boxing history, but in my opinion Yank Durham should have called it after the first round. Frazier was lucky that six of his best friends weren't carrying him out of the church by the handles after ...

@RuckPo12 That was Tyson's excuse, and a rather lame one at that. Considering their two styles, their heads would likely clash. If Tyson didn't like the rough stuff, he should have found a way to combat it - legally.

Wow! I can't get over Duran's condition. This is the best he's looked since the first Camacho fight in 1996. I understand that those close to him and even the Panamanian government went to Duran not long ago and begged him to get the weight off - for his own health, this time.

@Sirscorps I was looking for a response from BBQFanNo1, not you, thank you.

I'm not saying that Elvis is still alive, but if this picture is authentic then Larry Geller's story about having to use mascara on Elvis' hair at the funeral home due to a "half inch" regrowth of grey, which would have to have occurred in the succeeding 48 hours, doesn't hold up. The King's hai...

@sweetassugar69 To quote a famous American heavyweight, if I had a lower IQ I could appreciate your point. Cheers.