"Were promoters that smart" etc. In a word, yes. At least I believe so. "simple black and white" But many of the criticisms for using the...
The problem with other sports is that unlike boxing there was a COMPLETE color line. There were and could be no black major league baseball...
Max Baer would probably be the most fun. Tunney the least fun, but you'd be able to rub elbows with the Harriman and Rockefeller types if that is...
I said REASONABLE. I stick with that. You make much of the Bivins fights, but Mauriello fought Bivins years earlier when Tami was still a...
Thanks for doing this list. What jumps out at me. Rex Layne has wins over the #4 and #5 men but doesn't even make the list. He is one guy who...
No. Then you would have to name the black contenders and there were a very limited number. I think we went over that with Franklin. And...
"It seems eminently fair to me that Mauriello be given the #1 ranking" I agree. If one is going to hold the close Bivins losses years earlier...
Part two--the next step is the championship fights. There were 22 heavyweight championship fights between 1946 and 1955. * means fighter won the...
Some posters are making so much of the alleged color line in the 1940's that I did some research in The Ring annual ratings (because they are...
Just on size of opposition, Mauriello fought 17 fights against men who weighed over 200 lbs out of 96 total. I don't think that is at all an...
No. But that one has a quite a number of ringside reports, and it was a very close split decision.
*First, just a minor point. I don't think Godoy was a white fighter. He was from Chile and I thought he was of mixed Native American ethnicity....
"not like he took a peak Marciano to the brink of defeat" Good point, but it doesn't erase that he came closer to beating Marciano than anyone,...
These are excerpts from the article "Boxing Playboys" by Ted Carroll in the September, 1950 issue of The Ring: "For natural skill, Oma has been...
"Your friend talks about Mauriello 'shamelessly avoiding black fighters'" And I mentioned that I don't agree with the extreme Suzie takes this...
