So not even going to try to defend the part of your post that I was actually responding to? The part where you claimed Williams was fighting so...
The usual bizarrely contrived statistics. 26 fights in 2 years - conveniently leaving out the fact that he had only had 2 fights in the first 6...
You suspect? That's not how the draft board works. They don't change their minds about drafting someone because his manager asks them not to.
I guess you mean this one from the Miami News. Viscusi did tell the press that "if we get lucky" the fight might lead to meetings with higher...
This is a bit deceptive. Williams fought a handful of 4-rounders as a 16 year old before being forced to quit because he was underage. He'd been...
I went via genealogybank.com which is a paysite, but familysearch.org is also a good choice - you have to make an account but it's free, and...
I'm literally incapable of reading a remark like that without seeing if I can find the records myself. The 1920 census - taken in January of that...
Eddie Gregg's WBC rating is a puzzle, really. At the end of January 1986 - after his final win against the frequently defeated Walter Santemore -...
This fight seems a bit of a joke now, but at the time it was considered a major test for a fairly green 20 year old prospect. Clay was the...
You do realise literally no one has said Williams would have won this fight if he hadn't been shot? I suppose the red mist that descends whenever...
There was an optimistic prediction when Williams was shot that he would be out of hospital in a month and back in the ring in six. The reality...
Wrong again. Chuvalo signed to meet Williams on 5th October - fully six weeks before the fight.
Rocky Marciano saw Bugner sparring in London in 1969 and was so impressed that he was talking about getting together with Lou Duva to bring him to...
Strange, but I guess Boxrec is an ongoing project, and maybe it's only recently that the Shreveport newspapers have become easily accessible.
That one's from the Shreveport Times - so it's Louisiana again, though a fair trek from New Orleans. At the risk of wandering off topic, Birch...
