A knock on the Hotel door. Les opens it. It is the young hotel porter, a painfully thin Negro, and he is deeply sorry suh, but there is someone...
The boxer on the floor has just been knocked out in a championship contest. A few days earlier he had saved someone from drowning. Did his heroic...
there are great articles in old magazines that have just become lost in time, they simply dont write about what goes on outside the ring...
left of topic....dave shade had 59 draws on his record...there are names with more too.. http://boxrec.com/boxer/13658
to add to that....another sugar ray / sugar ray opponent story from around that end of robinsons career time... ................ "Shortly...
When they left, he took off his white net shorts and put on a jockstrap and a white terry-cloth fingertip robe. The sleeves were slit to the...
Outside Sugar Ray got back in the station wagon and rode over to Pittsfield General Hospital. In the hospital a nurse said, "You'll have to come...
"Hey, Sugar," a stranger said, "good to see you here." "Hi, ol' buddy," Robinson said. "It's good to be here." It was good, too, for promoter...
He had come up in the morning from New York City in a gray station wagon. In the back seat was a beat-up brown suitcase with a beat-up French Line...
Joe Gans, speaking on Young Griffo...as quoted by the Washington Post on July 9, 1899 - Ill never forget my experience in the ring with that...
click on the photos on these to enlarge..nothing that special here... .............. March 12, 1917 - National Sporting Club, London...
i still find it strange that there are no official british rankings at all....british titles but no official rankings.
last one tonight before bed of these many articles i've posted today.....i can't copy and paste the text on this one though, as its a scan from a...
"Juan Zurita, he was past due for a defense so they named me as contender and gave me a shot at it. They threatened to take the title away from...
"After introducing several celebrities in the audience, the ring announcer, Freddie Russo, said in his booming voice, Ladieees and gentlemen,...
