This definitely clarified the heavyweight lineage. Schemeling won the title on a low blow. Sharkey won the title on a questionable decision....
I think that if they fought twice, Loughran would get stopped once, and Shavers woudl be outpointed once. That is how I see this. If it is a...
How could you even guess at that?
If it is routinely used by people who know nothing about boxing, who are not even aware that it is a boxing quote, then that is not a bad call.
Panama Al Brown perhaps. Admittedly we don't have much to work with.
The end of the colour bar clause In 1947, after continued pressure from the press and the public, and the efforts of Ivor Cummings, Arthur...
That is actually a very good question. The color line is an evil of the past, that needed to be buried under six feet of concrete. I am...
His short arms added something to it. Archie Moor compared it to fighting a propeller .
Who cares? We can fairly safely assume the resume that he bowed out on.
Yes it absolutely can. What kills your legacy is if you have a band of critics, and they outlive you.
Tunney was writing the narrative. He was modest enough to agree that Harry Greb was greater than Sugar Ray Robinson, and that Jack Dempsey was...
Nothing hurts a persons historical standing more than dying young. Exhibit A, Field Marshal Douglas Haig.
If they had fought three times they woudl probably have split a series.
I think that the weights, and the styles, definitely favor teh Bronx Bull.
Impossible to say. One thing that we can be sure of, is that he would have aged sooner. An athlete has a finite physical prime, and a finite...
