It is interesting that the October, 1956 Ring issue which contains the first publication of the 1916 confession (There might have been others)...
Fair enough. My conclusion was perhaps harsh. He was a fighter who gave boxing a tremendous lift because of his exciting style, and he did...
How did Fulton do with Wills?
The date of publication is given. With just brief research, I found that Johnson gave the interview (he was credited as the writer) on June 3,...
"Jeffries fighting Johnson is proof he didn't duck black fighters" He ducked Johnson when he was champion. Yes, fighting Johnson, and also...
Yes. One of my criteria is beating the best out there. You explain to me how you can be an atg if you don't even beat the three best of your own...
Adam Pollack wrote in his biog of Jeff that Fitz challenged Jeff for a fight within a week as the Horton law was expiring. Jeff was injured and...
"you can't deduct from Dempsey's record" Who is deducting? The position of the critics is that Dempsey's record as it stands is not strong...
I think the point is why have an elimination if you are going to give the loser the shot? It was apparently thought that Gibbons needed this win...
"the people wanted Gibbons rather than Greb" An hysterically over-the-top extrapolation. No one knows what "the people" wanted. The most that...
"this idea of a fix would come out of nowhere without at least SOME truth to it." Conspiracy theories pop up over the place. Some might, or even...
"How is it possible to make rankings with almost no footage of anyone back then." Well, how is it possible to claim all of Dempsey's title...
Johnson would seem to be the best source for his relationship with Rickard, and he wrote this, "I have often heard it said that Rickard was most...
so we are supposed to take the word of an eighty some year old gent who wasn't there and in his ramblings claims to have KO'd Jack Johnson in a...
"There were no ratings back then." Which also would mean there would no way of saying they weren't top contenders. I was referring to...
