Quote Originally Posted by BIG H View Post
Great thread!!

I don't think you can call John L Sullivan an ATG. It was barely the same sport back then, plus the fact, how can you really judge somebody who you haven't seen fight
By who he defeated of course!

John L is boxing's indispensable man. Without him jamming the Marquess of Queensbury Rules down everyone's throat in his barnstorming across the country? Who knows where boxing would have gone?

I'm also not sure how one can rate ATG's while excluding some periods of time