A book written decades after the event is not a contemporary source. Still waiting for an explanation of how Ali could shout something that...
We've been through this. No one can find a contemporary source which claims that Ali said those words. They give it as "Get up, get up", "Get...
After Ernie Schaaf was killed in 1933, there was a story that the New York commission were going to institute a super-heavyweight class, on the...
Where does Sports Illustrated say that? In their article from immediately after the bout they give it as "Get up and fight, sucker!"...
I've never found a contemporary account which quotes Ali as saying this. They all just give it as "Get up, get up!" or "Get up, you bum!"
The boxrec system tends to reward longevity. Floyd Patterson may not have been an atg heavyweight but his career spanned 20 years, most of it as...
Judging by this pic of him fighting Ken Norton at a svelte 274 lbs, at 310 he must have been practically spherical....
He was supposed to defend the title against Schmeling in September 1936, but that got postponed, supposedly because Braddock had arthritis in his...
I wouldn't want to guess who was the first to use the term, but there's an article here from 1919 by Robert Edgren describing the use of...
You keep saying that like it's a fact. Compubox statistics are not some magical, infallible insight into what happened in the ring, it's just...
There's nothing revisionist about it. The UPI round-up of ringside press verdicts shows how evenly split they were....
I guess the top 5 are going to stay pretty stable for a while, since they all went on long streaks where they were either undefeated or lost only...
Holyfield says he was 46 and Ruiz was 19, which sounds right.
Baer did have a strange attitude to the game. He's the only fighter I've ever seen lose a fight and look more cheerful about it than the man who...
Probably Lamar Clark. Granted, most of his opponents didn't have any wins either.
