Thanks, Fogey.
If speaking of heavyweights, during that late 60's/early 70's era we also saw Chuck Wepner pull off a huge upset win over the heavily favoured...
"This Marchegiano kid's got nothing. He can punch all right, but I've never seen a fighter as clumsy. The kid doesn't know what he's doin' out...
As was George Godfrey who, if memory serves, seemed to have had the overall advantage in matching strength in the clinches with Carnera, as he...
So it was written that early, was it? Well yeah, that does make sense since the book does end off with Skehan talking about the then-recent...
I'd actually highly recommend it, my friend, if you can track it down, as it's truthfully one of the better and more detailed boxing bios I've...
And not only once. I also recall that Cummings wasn't too shy with the headbuttts or low blows in that one either, and even with this faded...
True. Skeehan's bio on Marciano talks about these exhibitions with Sonny and can be found in the chapter entitled, "Brothers and Enemies" that...
Whether it was originally caused by an Angott punch or not, I don't know, but Ike Williams was hospitalized after that fight and x-rays revealed...
KO Magazine and their sister publications did have monthly p4p listings in their ratings going back to the early/mid 80's, and if I'd hazzard a...
As do a number of contemporary sources from the time, which state that Ross relinquished the lightweight title on April 15th of that year, and...
Thanks for the response, UWE, and here's the official report given to the commision from Doctors Nardiello, Beyer, and (I forget the other one,...
I don't have a current all-time ranking, nor can I remember the last time I even bothered to compile one. But if I was to do a ranking, the names...
I don't know about that, UWE, as some of the prefight quotes in the immediate days leading up to the fight from Baer's own people (and others)...
Well, the day after fight reports from the Ross/Klick fight do illustrate that California also backed Ross' championship at 140 after the Klick...
