It's Rudi Koopmans.
In Harry Mullan's 'Ultimate Encyclopedia of Boxing' it claims that the longest fight under MoQ rules was one from April of 1893 between Andy Bowen...
Probably not what you're looking for, Russell, but if you're looking for a laugh, there was an old man back in the 1930's by the name of Cpl...
Here's a short little bit from the AP report from the day after the fight (Sept 14th, 1997), which mentions de La Hoya knocking Camacho down in...
I'm not sure of the validity of it considering the source, but in his later years, Battling Battalino claimed he knocked Panama Al down during...
Quite a bit different as far as circumstances go, though, aren't they? Ketchel was talked about as declining in his ability to fight in those...
I'm not sure Ketchel would have even fought again, Janitor, and if he did, I'd have to think that the decline he was said to be undergoing (in...
As of the morning of the fight those were the odds as quoted by some sources, with others have it quoted as being just a little higher at 11 to 4.
Teddy Brenner talks about having these two signed to face each other in his book "Only The Ring Was Square", and while it's been some time since...
I used to think those things about that Driscoll-Attell fight, but after checking the day-afters from the time, I found that the fight was...
Yeah, it was for real, and them signing the contracts for the fight was reported in a vast number of sources dated May 24th, 1950, and obviously...
They were signed and scheduled to fight for LaMotta's title in the summer of 1950, but Graziano busted his hand in training a couple of weeks...
Just checking that link, I started you out on page three. The coverage starts on the front page, so just go from there.
http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/ndnp:1461805/display.html?n=2&scope=fulltext&pageNum=1¤tSort=&mode=list If I typed that link in...
Yep. "He was dressed in his lemon-yellow cowboy outfit; yellow shirt, tan Texas hat, brown boots, yellow striped pants." - page 266
