He was phenomenally popular in the UK and was huge box-office. The only times he really got booed were if he was in an opponent's backyard and was...
Naz's case is far more complex than the lazy "he didn't have the heart for boxing" cliches. Hamed was incredibly close to his trainer/mentor,...
When it was introduced (1910) and implemented originally, the Dept. of Justice were keen to focus entirely on commercialised vice, human...
mcvey already covered most things (and did so excellently I might add), but a couple of additional points. Jack was thirty by the time he...
Cinderella Man was a decent film but yeah, they portrayed Baer as a vicious, joyless killer who revelled in the fact he'd 'killed two men', which...
'Battles Royal'. They were around for a pretty scary amount of time. Jack Johnson fought in a few at the turn of the century when he was an...
Seen this before but not recently, thanks for posting. Always been charmed by Mike's respect and reverence for those that came before. You can...
Yeah, I did intend to quote directly when I started the post but there were a fair few bits and pieces I disagreed with throughout the thread and...
Jeffries, Corbett, Johnson and Dempsey all in their primes would answer a lot of questions and would make for a series of great (or at the least...
Yes, and as I specified, I agreed with his inclusion in the list on that basis. I did go out of my way to make that clear. It was the...
Some of the Johnson bashing here is scary over-the-top. The idea that he just clinched and stalled is completely contradicted by the phenomenal...
Pro wrestling and boxing were inextricably linked around the time of Jeffries and Johnson for a few reasons. There were promoters (Jack Curley...
