February 1955, Terrell wins the Chicago golden gloves novice division as a 15 year old middleweight....
No one's suggesting pro experience is less valuable than amateur. Only that, in the absence of any amateur experience at all, the early stages of...
The two situations aren't remotely comparable. Terrell was two years older than Williams. He had been boxing professionally for five years,...
They changed it because press reports from the time give his height as 6 feet. If anyone can find a contemporary source supporting the 6'4"...
I don't really hold it against Dempsey that he lost to Willie Meehan, who was notoriously difficult to beat over 4 rounds. But Dempsey lost to...
I spent quite a while trying to trace the source of the story that Carmine Vingo was 6'4" and never came up with an answer. At 189 lbs, it would...
It's been explained to him many times that both Martin and his manager explicitly said that the injury happened against Liston, and that there's...
Shortly before this, Sullivan headed to William Muldoon's health farm to try and get back in shape. He was weighing around 255 lbs, but Muldoon...
Cooney was supposed to fight Joe Bugner in December 1981 but pulled out with a back injury. Bugner was inactive and unranked, but he was at least...
You're going to pretend to think that when Viscusi said Williams had done roadwork but no sparring, he meant he'd done roadwork and also tons of...
If you remember, I said that he took the fight on two days' notice. You came back with "Okay. But he was training." I pointed out that this...
Fortunately I've had this argument before, so I already know where to look for a lot of this stuff.
LaStarza reportedly weighed 187 when he finished training and was surprised he was so light at the weigh-in. "Maybe it was because I didn't drink...
This was reported in the press at the time. Despite putting a brave face on his fighter's chances, Viscusi acknowledged that he'd done no...
Well. You've pronounced the details of Williams's early career "lost in a murky past", but that doesn't stop you pushing the idea that he had "6...
