I was not knocking Darcy for accepting the $30,000. purse offer to fight Jack Dillon and reportedly spurning the $15,000. purse offer to fight...
Would any promoter be willing to offer Les Darcy a big enough purse to fight a then-virtual unknown like Jack Dempsey, a heavyweight to boot?...
I find it laughable that Jack Dempsey would be considered a viable opponent for Les Darcy during the latter's lifetime. Dempsey was a virtual...
Steve- After returning to Australia sometime during the 1920s, Mick King appears to have been institutionalized until dying in 1949.. Except for...
Alfonso Zamora would have to get lucky in a bout with Ruben Olivares, a vastly superior fighter. - Chuck Johnston
I was impressed by Greg Page when seeing him fight as an amateur in at least one televised bout. But when watching him fight in person and stop...
You are entitled not to accept newspaper decisions when ring officials could not legally render official decisions in bouts. But newspaper...
It appears that Fred Kay's full name was Frederick John Kay, who was born on June 26, 1890 in Melbourne and died on May 26, 1966. It looks like...
The Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame seems to be a fine organization for the most part. It is very hard to find any of their inductees who...
Greg, I have been trying to track down certain Australian fighters' full real names, birthdates, birthplaces and death dates for their records on...
That is a great story! By the way, Americans didn't use the term, "Alko," to describe a down-and-out drunk. But they did use the term, "Alky."...
A number of years ago, I purchased a biography, The Snowy Baker Story, by Greg Growden, by ordering it through an Australian bookstore and had it...
Of the Les Darcy biographies, which is the best one? Is it the Ballad of Les Darcy, by Peter FitzSimons? I noticed that the Ballad of Les Darcy...
Greg, Jack Carroll drew huge crowds during the last few bouts of his career. One of those bouts reportedly had a gate of 6,000 pounds, which must...
Greg, I found quite a bit about Jimmy Leto, who had three bouts with Jack Carroll, while looking at U.S. Census Records tonight. It appears that...
