I'm a fan of any boxing. If it's on television, and I know it, I'm watching it, women included (which I view as simply another class, similar to different weight classes).
Hilario Zapata, Jeff Chandler, Richie Sandoval, and a growing appreciation of Lupe Pintor as the years pass, yes.
Currently I only follow Inoue and Ioka, but man, you do have to respect all-time greats like Willie Will-o'-the-wisp Pep and Sandy Saddler. Art is art, no matter the size.
The flyweight division in the 20s and 30s was absolutely sick. You had a lot of small men around, and they had to take enormous risks to get anywhere!
Absolutely. Of recent times, the flyweight/junior bantam have been the best because they don’t get on Twitter and “fight” or over marinate. They just get it on and deliver. Historically, of course! My all-time favorite weight class is by FAR bantamweight. Look at the lineup from late 50s into 80s - Becerra, Jofre, Harada, Rose, Olivares, Castillo, Herrera, Medel, Martinez, Zárate, Zamora, Pintor, Chandler. All great to watch.
Your enemies are old fools like you then! In all adult seriousness, It really doesn't matter it's all up in the air depending how you want interpret it.
There is a bit of wiggle room on why events unfolded as they did, and who was responsible. I don't think that you could argue that Wills was treated fairly and justly though.
Overall no, no he wasn't very few black fighters back then where. But he did have a chance all he had to do was impress- you know as well as I do how different the times where and how much they had to bank on public perception. Big part of why Dempsey was such a brutal sparring partner with reporters around was if he looked good and violent via the reports people would spend there money on his fights Wills made the fight impossible to sell with all that octopus stuff so they looked for easier more lucrative marks.
