Pretty dull, by all accounts. Both men had actual fights coming up, and weren't going to risk getting hurt - Williams in particular was just days...
People say that Johansson won every round except the last against London, but it's a matter of opinion. The United Press said he did, but the...
Liston originally used Foreman as a sparring partner when he was largely unknown, before he won the Olympics. This is from July 1968: Sonny was...
Yes - this is a couple of weeks before the Buster Mathis fight, where he came in at the heaviest weight of his career until Young.
I assume this is his exhibition in Buenos Aires in November 1971, which means the opponents are sparring partner James Summerville and Argentine...
In 1980 Ali's doctor diagnosed an underactive thyroid and prescribed thyrolar to deal with it. This famously backfired when Ali took double the...
I'll just drop in one additional quote. This is Father Alois Stevens, the prison chaplain who was Liston's original mentor, speaking shortly...
The railway spike story comes from pictures of the fight which show a dark cylindrical object by Willard's left knee as he lies slumped in the...
There's another picture here of Jeffries pushing his sandbag around. In this case at least it's clearly suspended from the ceiling....
True, it's not impossible. He does seem to have relied mostly on his left early in his career, and developed his right over time, which would be...
There are pictures of Liston signing his name with his right hand. If he actually was left-handed, he was very committed to the lie....
Soon after losing the title Liston was suspended by the WBA which, alongside being unable to get a licence in New York, made it almost impossible...
According to this article he was ranked 10th by the Ring. As you say, it seems possible that Anderson confused the Ring ratings with the WBC...
Well, that's true. By the end Holmes was openly taking easy defences in an attempt to make it to 50-0 before retirement. Mind you, most long...
In fairness to Holmes, as WBC champion he was working off the WBC ratings, which make his record look a lot better. Cooney was #1, Shavers was...
