It does for me. Getting in the ring with the best is a strong consideration for an atg claimant. Not getting in the ring with the best out there...
"He fought Johnson" I am not arguing Jeff was a good man, at least on the racial issue. He made many heavy-handed racist comments. But he did...
"What was your point again." I thought it pretty clear. Dempsey's title reign was mediocre. "Jeffries' was worse." No. His was probably the...
It isn't the core argument. Your premise is that being "prime" is the critical issue. No. It isn't. The critical point is who is the best at...
"Incorrect." That's too bad. I thought you might turn out to be interesting. "You aren't succeeding." So. One thing you learn growing old is...
And the fault for Jeff not defending against Fitz in 1901 appears to rest with Fitz as much, and apparently even more, than it rests with Jeff....
"Dempsey's title reign was mediocre." Yes. "I blame his management more than I do him though." Who cares about the blame or excuse games....
He wouldn't defend his title against them, but he did fight them. Of his 23 normally listed fights, 5 were against black men, all four of whom...
"bourgeois" A Bolshevik! This is great. I thought you guys had gone extinct. There used to be a lot of them around when I was a youngster....
"We can see you." Through a computer? Frankly, I just give my opinions. Obviously folks will agree or disagree as they will on any given issue....
Thanks for your opinion. I will give it all the consideration it deserves.
"You said Fitz was unbeaten for 9 years" He was except for the Sharkey DQ. This is factually true. "I showed that for 5 years and 3 months he...
Adam Pollack did a ton of research on this issue and had this comment-- ". . . Fitzsimmons had the opportunity to fight Jeffries within the next...
The problem is there is no way of knowing what boxrec doesn't know. What kind of records were being kept back then? Who was even trying to keep...
Yes, we really don't know something like that as the records back then are so spotty.
