It seems to have been Levinsky beckoning to Baer at the start of the second round that made things get serious. As Baer put it: "I was willing to...
The trouble with something like this is it's so utterly devoid of logic that it's very hard to formulate a response. At age 19 Williams was good...
Yes, Keene Simmons isn't a name Marciano fans should really be bringing up. As the local paper described it, Simmons had him badly shaken in the...
It can't be literally true - it's not that hard to dig up contemporary references to LaMotta doing roadwork. Either it's bravado on LaMotta's...
Patterson didn't make the heavyweight top 10 till the end of April 1956 - immediately after Marciano's retirement - but even before that he was...
You would think, right? Rischer had been ranked 9th ahead of Thad Spencer, 10th. But when Peralta got his big win and jumped to the #8 spot it...
Yes, I'd been confidently making that claim myself for some time before I started digging into the monthly ratings. The AP really let us down on...
Rischer had actually slipped out of the WBA top 10 just one month before he faced Williams. Not because he lost a fight but because a space had...
The article starts out calling the winner Shane but has switched to Joe by the end. In which case it's possibly this guy:...
The knockdown looks dirty to modern eyes but this was an era when "protect yourself at all times" was supposed to be taken literally. As the...
It's also worth bearing in mind that Williams didn't exactly have ideal preparation for the second Terrell fight. Incredibly, it took place just...
I notice you've changed your story. Originally you were claiming that "Miteff had been knocked out so many times" - suggesting that he had...
The point is, Liston's absence from the 1930 census means he cannot have been born earlier than April 1930, when the census was taken. In fact,...
Chuvalo had Miteff down once in their first meeting back in 1958 but Miteff got up and lasted out the round. In their rematch, immediately before...
Not really. He had been stopped on cuts against Billy Hunter, and quit against Willi Besmanoff with torn ligaments in his right knee. His only...
