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Thread #141456   Message #3256004
Posted By: MGM·Lion
13-Nov-11 - 04:44 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Greatest Boxer
Subject: RE: BS: The Greatest Boxer
... and should I have included Tyson? Or Marciano? Or Sayers? or or or (cont p 94) (Rhyme intentional [& Ryme Intrinseca?] - mebbe!)

... As to the point that heavyweights can beat all the others: don't quite get it myself. You have different weights so that 'greatness' [however defined] isn't necessarily confined to bigness. Might as well say that Michelangelo's Last Judgment is a 'greater' painting than, say, a perfect Hillyard miniature simply because it's bigger. The fact that one can beat another doesn't necessarily make him more intrinsically skilful or gifted...

~M~