It's unlikely we'll ever find more footage of Holman. Untill 1940 a federal law prohibited the transfer of fight films across state lines making...
That doesn't mean all that much if your definition of world class is relative to era. Greb might have beaten world class opposition in his day,...
The Cotten Club was founded by Jack Johnson, the original club was located on 48th street I think. I'm not sure if Dempsey's resteraunt is still...
I'm not faulting Greb for anything, I'm questioning whether boxing fans, including myself in the past, have made Greb into a modern day myth. Has...
Bottlemline, he got knocked down four times and was completely out boxed, no lucky punch can cause that.
Definately, but does he really rank higher than them on the p4p list? Toledo seems to think he was the GOAT and many have him as the greatest...
Larry Holmes had a good championship run and suffered his first loss roughly a decade after turning pro. Probably one of the most under...
A lot of people who say that it was a weak punch, that Liston wasn't hurt are also people who've never been in a pro or amateur fight and taken a...
If you evaluate fighters relative to the era they fought in, then Floyd Mayweather has it on the numbers. But no one would seriously argue Floyd...
Harry Greb vs Ezzard Charles
People have been quick to lynch Whyte while completely forgetting Fury and some of his gym mates have tested positive for PEDs in the past and...
Fury has helped pushed the sport to a whole new level of insanity. He's proved you can be a world champion just by calling yourself one in...
Greb's claim to fame is that he fought the best at middleweight and light heavy and ploughed through tough opposition. Well, Ezzard Charles and...
Greb's record is incredible, but then again so is Pacquiao's (according to some) and certain folks think Manny has a claim to the GOAT throne. How...
Guys like Jack Johnson or Fitzsimmons wouldn't have fought well in any other era. At that time they'd just been transitioning to gloved bouts,...