Sonny Liston,,,,,,, Born in May 1927, was 35 when he won the Heavyweight Title. No way was Sonny 31 in 1964 when he lost to 'The Louisville Lip' Another, Sweet Saoul Mamby,,,,,,, who was better in 1976/1977/1978 than when he won the title in 1980.
I was going to suggest you watch Eastenders tonight. What do you mean by 10 inches? :blurp:blurp:blurp:blurp:blurp
:rofl:rofl never mind m8. I have BBC1, 2, 3 And 4. :hat And yes, me And the lass always watch Eastenders. :smooch
Actually, the big bucks were no longer there with Dempsey having retired, Jack not being interested in risking his eyes for a third match. Had he wanted another crack at Tunney while Rickard remained active, Tex would have put another multi-million dollar gate together. Those initial posts of mine included speculation about Gene getting wiped out in the 1929 Crash as Dempsey and Benny Leonard were, compelling him to return to competition. (Remarkably, Tunney's earned fortune was absolutely unharmed by that event, strengthening his financial position even further.) My hypothesis is that if he'd been forced by economic necessity to continue boxing that he'd indeed have been able to remain undefeated until Louis came along. Heeney, who had drawn with Sharkey, managed to do something when paired with Gene that simply hadn't happened to a Rickard promotion before, lose money for Tex (something he blamed at the time on radio). But the Stock Market Crash was still over a year away, and huge profits might still have been realized with the right challenger for Tunney. Unfortunately, that was the retired Dempsey. Max Baer would probably have been the next figure compelling enough to generate that kind of interest as a challenger for Gene if Rickard had also lived. (Tex had just turned 59 when complications following an appendectomy killed him.)