It appears that the average weekly wage for an Australian adult male was about three pounds at the beginning of 1917. Under the circumstances, it...
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson was a Democrat while New York Governor Charles Whitman was a Republican and backed Charles Evans Hughes to be the...
As a juror, I would not vote guilty if Sonny Liston was being tried on the charge that he dived in his second bout with Muhammad Ali. The fact...
It appears that over 420,000 Australians served in the military during World War I with over 60,000 losing their lives and 137,000 being wounded....
Les Darcy had a rematch with George Chip scheduled to take place in Melbourne, but that bout was aborted because Darcy was in the process of...
I am not convinced that Sonny Liston took a dive in his second bout with Muhammad Ali. After the knockdown, Liston got up and started to fight...
From the 1880s to 1930, there were a large number of Australian and Australian-based fighters who left Australia to go to the United States. In...
According to an item in the February 1, 1917 edition of the Upper Murray and Mitta Herald on the Trove website, Les Darcy received a total of...
They felt it was funny and seemed to get even more excited when the imposter got into the ring. - Chuck Johnston
BoxRec has 6,800 American professional boxing events listed for 1929; 2,628 for 1940; 4,380 for 1946; 1,988 for 1950; 1,224 for 1955 and only 757...
I saw the bout between Carlos Zarate and Alfonso Zamora while sitting in the cheap seats. While the bout lasted, there was plenty of action with...
More white collar jobs and wealth are only one part of the puzzle in regards to fewer American white men becoming professional boxers after World...
I have a biography, The Snowy Baker Story, by Greg Growden. While re-reading the pages of the book devoted to Les Darcy, I got the impression...
After boxing in the United Kingdom during his first two-plus years as a pro starting in 1913, Llew Edwards, a Welsh-born lightweight, fought in...
Fighting Billy Murray was damaged goods and really had few other options by the time he went to Australia. After doing quite well during the...
