Quote Originally Posted by hhascup View Post

I once asked Ike Williams, who was the best boxer he ever fought, he he said Tippy Larkin. I said, you knocked him out in 4 rounds.

It's an interesting phenomenon that boxers tend to have the highest praise for the guys they beat (and, conversely, often have less-than-glowing words for the guys who beat them. I think the psychology is, if it's a guy they beat, they praise him highly because if the guy was THAT good, then imagine how good *I* am for beating him; but if it's a guy they lost to, then the psychology of it is that by minimizing the other guy, the implication is that he got lucky, and the boxer talking would probably win a rematch.

Not saying that was what was going on with Williams; just a weird thing I've noticed over the years.