Old time fighters who need the benefit of a good biography

Mike Gibbons would be my choice...and for a modern fighter, Monzon.

 

jimmy young
gene tunney

 

The suggestions for Stribling and Blackburn are two I would be very interested in.

 

Jimmy Young ? Janitor asked for great fighters.

 

he is. look at who he beat:
Norton, Shavers, Ali, Foreman, Lyle, and Garcia.

 

Benny Leonard, if there isn't one already published.

 

He may have even been 3-1 against Ortiz (which actually puts him in a class by himself - Maes and Salas were both 2-1 against Ortiz, and a couple like Pep and Eddie Chavez were undefeated against him, but nobody else had three wins and he generally got the better of his multi-fight rivals). :shock:

http://cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/goldberg-benny.htm

If anybody has some footage they could upload (especially of the 15-rounder with Ortiz in 43) it would be much appreciated. :good

 

It should be noted that Goldberg's wins over Ortiz came when both were straight out of the amateurs and long before Ortiz developed into the all-time great he would eventually become.

 

There was a small Bio on Young. I read it. My local library had it.

 

True, and the two confirmed bouts from 1938 were early in the year and only 4 rounds each, but if the third one did in fact take place in November then Benny proved himself the better man on the night over a full ten rounds after Ortiz had attained some measure of meaningful experience with the likes of Richie Lemos and David Kui Kong Young.

 

books on Tunney, and Stribling have been written.

 

Carlos Monzon.

 

"Jersey Joe Walcott. I have been able to contact Walcott's family. I have contacted a few...but I am in serious consideration of getting enough research on Jersey Joe where I will be able to explore the idea on a biography."

Jim Curl is about 12-13 chapters into a book on Walcott right now. He's been working with the family as well.

 

Jack Dillon " The Hoosier Bearcat ", is a fighter that sure deserves a biography ,to
shed some light on him...Some call him the " White Sam Langford ", for his powerful
stature, and the ability to ko much larger fighters...I have read somewhere years ago that even Sam Langford never sought the prime Dillon out..True or not, this is what I read...What a titanic bout that would have been between Sam Langford and Ernest Price Cutler...Wow !

 

i would be grateful to read it