According to Cooper's autobiography, the fight didn't happen because there just wasn't enough money on the table. As he put it, "We could stay at...
Immediately after the fight Louis was claiming a broken hand (it turned out to be just bruised). Seems like it took him a few days to come up...
Schmeling said that he was hoping to defend the title against Max Baer once he'd dealt with Louis. The fight would certainly have been a natural...
The Associated Press also had it close - 85-84, with Tyson winning the 4th, 6th, 7th and 8th rounds. I do think the extent to which Douglas...
I remember there's a story in Ali's autobiography that Liston was told Lena Horne would see him if he beat Patterson. "Patterson was lucky to...
Billy Fox was reported dead in New York in 1986. It's evidently the right man because, although it doesn't mention his former profession, the...
Robinson did briefly mention him in an interview: Was there really a Ray Robinson? Sure, I see him around once in a while. I told him, "I...
I don't know what the book's source is, but in this interview from 1968 he says that he first noticed it in 1955. Mind you, Charles wasn't always...
As I said, fighters at this time were paid a percentage of the gate. There's no suggestion that the $15,000 the club was willing to put up would...
The San Francisco Call didn't criticise the decision in that fight. The full quote is: The big colored fighters were both in splendid condition....
Jeffries repeatedly and explicitly said that he would never fight Johnson or any other black challenger for any money. He said it both before and...
He called Ryan the second greatest middleweight of all time. There were fighters who made Fleischer's ratings in two divisions, but Ryan wasn't...
For what it's worth, Nat Fleischer - in 1954 - rated Smith the second greatest welterweight of all time, behind Walcott and ahead of Britton,...
Louis got $103,611 for the Mauriello fight, so quite a bit more than for Walcott even though Mauriello was an equally heavy underdog.
This was the offer made by a California promoter. Apparently he convinced himself that Rosenbloom was so popular among wealthy film folk that...
