"novel doesn't say anything like that whatsoever and I've read it twice already." It's a novel, i.e., fictional? We're overdue for a great...
Part 2 - There came up for consideration a delicate subject. In July Collier’s had printed an amazing article concerning overtures by Jack...
Just came across the following in recently acquired book by Tom Meany from 1955 titled Colliers Greatest Sports Stories and thought it was...
Charlie White
"Langford and his people deserve more respect." I almost went with the name Tar Baby in the title of my biography about him, but ultimately...
"Hope this lays to rest the knockdown of Johnson myth." Yep, but it doesn't do anything to diminish my lack of respect for the man for dodging...
Here's some newspaper coverage of their April 1906 fight: Boston Post - April 27, 1906 “CAMBRIDGE LAD WENT FULL DISTANCE BUT WAS...
I've had a biography on him completed now now for at least six months. I'm still trying to land a publisher for it though. It's a...
I've seen threads concerning Greb giving Dempsey such a hard time during their sparring sessions, and others saying that Dempsey wouldn't agree to...
‘Boxing’ magazine. Vol. 1, No. 5 - October 9, 1909 The Terrible Sam Langford “Despite Bob Fitzsimmons’s opinion of Sam...
According to his son, Jay Tunney, Gene Tunney said Dempsey was the greatest fighter of his era.
Well for sure Langford was knocked down by Hague before he knocked Hague out, Langford himself said that. I know that Langford went down on his...
Anybody know the story behind Jim Flynn's real name? I see on the internet in a couple of places that his birth name was Andrew Chiariglione, with...
Was thinking perhaps Georges Carpentier, but it appears he fell about 8-10 fights short.
"via superior technique" Seriously??? Just what technique is in use today that is superior to that which was in use during Dempsey's era?
