It was over two years after the first Holyfield fight, and Tyson had been exposed as a mental case in the meantime. I'm guessing he had entered a...
The Spinks fight convinced everyone that the Tyson era was for real. But there were loads of people who were unwilling to put him on the ATG list...
Yes, that's fair. I felt Stonehands skirted over an important issue though when he wrote : "Rickard and Kearns both had the recent spectre of...
I agree with all of that. :good
Yes, and their opposition to the color line wasn't worth spit when they couldn't be trusted to get behind a black champion or not use the...
The worst thing is, in boxing terms, they milked it so slowly. Dempsey was nowhere to be found in a boxing ring most of the time, post-1919. It...
I don't think the same press as a whole could be trusted to get behind a black champion though, or placate the racist anger and racial tension...
That explains it then.
Happens with me sometimes too.
Whether he was sick or not at the Dempsey fight, he was coming off quite a long layoff from top-flight competition, and had some dodgy form before...
I mis-read the article. :good
Lou Ferrigno was a great bodybuilder and I love The Incredible Hulk as much as anyone, but I don't know his record as a boxer conditioner trainer....
Yeah, but as I understand it, that was Rickard's rationale for not being keen on blacks fighting for the heavyweight title. The boxing game was...
33-1 underdog ? And the article McGrain posted had him down as one of the top 3 contenders. :lol: That shows how highly rated Dempsey had become...
Dempsey and Kearns publically withdrew the color line statement within a month or two, if I remember rightly. In fact, I think they claimed they...
