Tommy Uren beat Jimmy Clabby, who fought Les Darcy on a number of occasions, in New Zealand for the Australasian middleweight title back in 1920.
Bill Lang lost via disqualification against the great Sam Langford in London in 1911.
Dave Smith beat hall of fame light heavyweight Battling Levinsky (newspaper decision) in 1912 in Philadelphia.
Yep. I have no doubt Sands would have been world champ had he not tragically been killed in that crash.
Jimmy Carruthers' world title defense against Chamroen Songkitrat in Thailand in front of almost 70,000 in pouring monsoonal rain. The only title...
Fred Henneberry fought in front of 90,000 in London on the undercard of a Commonwealth light heavyweight title fight between British legends Jock...
Dave Sands win over future world champ Carl 'Bobo' Olsen in Chicago. The first fight on American TV to be broadcast coast to coast.
Thanks for sharing. Sad story is Bobby Chacon's.
Thanks for the heads up mate. Will check it out.
Plenty of world class scraps fought here over the years. So many of them not available on film but the class of the fighters and the closeness of...
Great stuff Boilermaker. As an Aussie boxing history buff, Ive spent countless hours reading Corbett's work. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for your input Chuck, youve obviously done your research on Shade!
I think Robert Garcia deserves a fair amount of credit here. He gave Maidana the plan to do what pretty much no one has done to Mayweather. He...
Firstly, I thought Floyd won it but Maidana did win the first four and maybe one of the later rounds, so it was close. Secondly, no way in hell a...
Thanks for your input Chuck!
