And you were doing so well. London was never ranked #1 by the NBA and certainly not for "most of the year prior to his challenge". His win over...
Depends whose ratings we're talking about. As you say, Bethea's last fight before meeting Liston was a split decision loss to Nino Valdes. At...
It was the California system that won Quarry the second Patterson fight. For some reason one judge gave him a 3 point margin in the fourth round....
They did box a three round exhibition in 1943. Louis pronounced Charles "a real good boy with the gloves on."
True, and in any case the reality is it was Frazier, not Quarry, who was originally approached to fight Ali in Atlanta. His manager turned it...
His condition worsened swiftly after it first became public in 1968, though by that time he'd already been living with it for years. One sad...
Dull in the sense of tedious rather than the film quality. Nova boxed very cautiously and Louis just patiently stalked him, so not much happened...
The Nova fight was certainly filmed, but reportedly so dull that the distributors didn't think it was worth showing, which may explain why it...
I guess when we're talking about testimony from opponents we should probably put an asterisk against the ones who were speaking immediately after...
The only one I know of is Tommy Farr, who originally said Louis hit harder but changed his mind after losing his rematch with Baer in 1938....
If I remember rightly Izenberg also claimed that he was the one who told the photographer to take the iconic shot of Ali standing over Liston's...
No - no contemporary report mentions Ali saying anything like "nobody's going to believe this." That includes Jerry Izenberg, who - despite what...
I'm kind of teetering on the edge of my ignorance here, but I think the original plan was that Sullivan and Corbett would box for $10k apiece,...
I believe Flynn was a railroad fireman, which means his job was keeping fires burning rather than putting them out. I'll admit I have no idea if...
They tried to get him to spar for the cameras in 1894 but he wanted too much money and we ended up with Corbett-Courtney instead. A lost...
