Holyfield was rated #1 contender by all three sanctioning bodies, like you say, and here's part of an article announcing a Tyson-Holyfield date...
Basically for as long as there's been two people willing to step into a confined area to do battle with their fists.
He might of won the gold had he gone to the Games, BI. Never will know. But I'm not sure how valid his claim is when he says he lost a...
Oh, and I might add that the rest of the round-by-round continues on to page 14.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1904-10-01/ed-1/seq-11/%3Bwords%3D/ - The day after fight report from the SF Call The same...
Mike Trainer was O'Sullivan's official manager, although Leonard did play a part in Shawn's career as a mentor in the gym and was also, along with...
It's a reach because none of this ever went into a record book, but to be fair to the other guy there, Langford did recieve scattered support from...
Here's a few accounts (bottom post of page) out of the fight's location that I posted last month if you're interested, M2S;...
I've read the same in books myself, Brockton, so I'm not blaming you for thinking that. I got curious about that fight once, checked in on it from...
The reports out of New York that I've read had the fight plenty closer than that, Brockton, and each of them were basically unanimous in thinking...
On page 229 of his autobio 'I Only Talk Winning', Dundee admits to "refitting the ropes" before the fight, although he claims in the book that he...
National Sporting Club, Ltd., Covent Garden, W. C., London, Sept. 19, 1908 Gentlemen, I undertake and agree to carry out my agreement with Sam...
Then maybe for the sake of objectiveness we shouldn't believe in one story or the other, and just say that there's conflicting accounts of what...
Sounds similiar to what Tom O'Rourke said he saw when Johnson and Langford met; "I saw Langford and Johnson box two years ago in Boston. On that...
The story is that the NSC did lend money to Johnson, and even some of Johnson's comments seem to indicate such. There's also no doubt at all...
