Quote Originally Posted by Bill Paxtom View Post
A remarkable fighter.

He only had 'one' bad fight in his 1st Career, and no controversial wins.

How many boxers can say that.
It's just a shame that it took over a decade to get his head back into boxing after that loss. If he could have matured more quickly, I have no doubt that he would have had many more years of success during the 70's and 80's.

Although he did have the Jimmy young fight which was bad but I will give him the excuse that he did suffer from heat exhaustion in that fight and almost died so it's understandable. Kind of like I give Robinson a pass on losing to Joey maxim.