Oh, ok. I guess it must be someone else who thinks beating the unranked, 14-4 Cooper was a "great win".
And yet the fact that Henry Cooper was coming off a ko loss to Joe Bygraves doesn't stop you seeing a win against him as evidence that Johansson...
The article certainly implies that, but that may just be the Philadelphia Daily News painting the rosiest possible picture of the Philadelphia...
I think we can at least say with confidence that Price didn't beat Clay. Even ignoring the story that he was going to be dropped from the team if...
His given reason was just that "it was too hot in there to wait around". It was a sweltering day in Malaysia, made worse by the TV lights under a...
Hope springs eternal. Apparently for a while they were almost inseparable. Johnson's manager asked Ali to stick with him as a kind of bodyguard,...
He sparred regularly with Harold Johnson in 1961, when Johnson was in Miami to fight Jesse Bowdry.
Could be from 1911, when Kennedy joined Jeanette's training camp to get in shape for his rematch with Al Palzer. Jeanette later said Kennedy was...
Bear in mind that Erskine's previous attempt to make his mark internationally had ended in a first round loss to Nino Valdes (who was unranked at...
The thing is, though, when Cooper faced Johansson he wasn't beating Zora Folley, he was getting knocked out by Joe Bygraves. This wasn't a case...
Yes, that was the major sticking point - the best offers for the fight were from Halifax, which was Berbick's home ground. Though I think by the...
Chuvalo was very overweight in his comeback fight against Felstein where he regained the Canadian title, but looked a little better in the two...
No offence taken - better than being called a tool, anyway.
No, when Cavicchi lost to Johansson in September 1956 he was unranked by either the Ring or the NBA. https://ibb.co/5TnxxHs
In other words you trawled through the NBA monthly ratings in search of a pair of listings which would serve your agenda. For Johansson, you...
