What were the toughest title fights? For example, fights famous for their toughness and the combativeness of the contenders were:...
Cheers. The discussion is long and unfortunately I have not read all the comments. A Greb-Fitz fight could have been the goat fight of the story....
It's a very good ranking and some names are to be carved in bronze: Greb, Robinson, Armstrong, Langford, Pep. Others are debatable. I would...
There are no safe and complete parameters to compare Old School boxers with those of the following years. Smaller gloves, rudimentary mouth...
Very thanks.
Old School boxers have left few videos of very poor quality. Their knowledge is based primarily on written sources and this requires the...
Langford, McVey, Jeanette beated Wills. Gans beated Battling Nelson. Papke beated Carpentier. Greb beated Loughran.
I will not repeat for the third time what I have already explained, to hear myself answered with purely subjective judgments on the value of...
These are subjective judgments and, above all, contradicted by empirical data. Wills lost to McVey. He drew with Jeanette and Jeff Clark. He...
1) Tom Sharkey and Sam Langford fought almost in the same era, for some years they were both active at the same time.When Langford learned to...
1) Tom Sharkey and Sam Langford fought almost in the same era, for some years they were both active at the same time. 2) Small Tom Sharkey? For a...
1) Sharkey was a very good boxer, appreciated by others of his time, including Johnson who called him among the best he had seen; 2) the second...
An uncertain encounter Jeffries is a difficult boxer to judge. He could be ranked among the top ten or outside the top twenty. Highly praised by...
Jeffries is among the most durable. His best victories, against Fitzsimmons (II), Corbett (I), Sharkey (II) are demonstrations of conditioning and...
The best Jeffries against the best Wills. 25 rounds, rules and gloves of their time. Jeffries was highly regarded by his contemporaries, for his...
