The term was coined by Jack Miley in December 1940. It's unfair of course, but at the time Louis was set to defend once a month against a string...
Yes - a slice of all Jacobs' profits from heavyweight title bouts for the next 10 years. It wasn't long before he was suing Jacobs for...
Peralta had always been on the cusp between heavyweight and light-heavyweight. When he beat light-heavyweight champion Willie Pastrano back in...
I don't think that's been put to the test, but I assume it would still count. There's no rule that you have to be over the light-heavyweight (now...
The first Louis-Walcott fight in 1947 was originally scheduled for 10 rounds which meant that, by New York rules, it wouldn't qualify as a title...
There were rumours about his health in the lead-up to the second Nelson fight. It was reported that a doctor had told him to start sleeping in...
Yes, it was in February 1961 while Johansson was training for the third Patterson fight. To be fair this was more than a month before the fight...
That would certainly have caused some controversy. The Associated Press only gave Cooney 4 rounds, and the United Press only 2.
Yes - lots of familiar faces who probably weren't pulling down massive paychecks at the time so they were within the show's budget.
Henry Cooper had a short cameo in The Plank (it depicts the humorous misadventures of two workmen trying to transport a single plank across town...
Joe Grim, according to a doctor at the time, had an abnormally small brain and sluggish nerves and was, essentially, too stupid to be knocked out.
79 inches according to the tale of the tape from the Liston fight. A meagre 72 inches according to the tale of the tape from the Ali fight....
He mentions it in this interview from 2002. Interviewer: Who was stronger, Muhammad Ali or Larry Holmes? Norton: Oh, Ali definitely. Ali was...
Here's the fight report from the San Francisco Examiner. They describe Johnson as looking like a "pygmy" compared to Martin. https://ibb.co/WWTmLjQ
You're confused. When Clarence Henry beat Bob Baker in December 1953, neither man was ranked by either the Ring or the NBA....
