Quote Originally Posted by SlimTrae View Post
Thanks for reminding me. I meant to get the book.

Guys like Burley set the blueprint for textbook shots, advanced.

IMO only the HW division has changed so drastically that fighters from yesteryear couldnt survive.
But Burley would be hell with any fighter today; proof was how so many historians and boxers to this very day who were old enough to have claimed Ray Robinson didnt want no part of him. & this only piece of footage we have of him, nice the way it was edited and word-commentary.

Was it Ray R who said he was too pretty to fight Burley?



Yes,

Sugar Ray was sat ringside watching Burley fight and said exactly that when asked if he'd fight him