"Langford was 24 years old, and had engaged in 50 fights when he fought Johnson, considerably more than Jack." Although it's not impossible...
The following comes from the May 4, 1934 edition of The Referee and Announcer magazine: Peter Jackson Lacked Defense In In-Fighting There...
"Unless he had done that after writing the heavyweights history book... Because from whatever I read by him on that epoch, it wasn't researched at...
"After throwing that out, Cm, ya gotta tell us who." I suppose it won't hurt to do that. His name is John Ochs. Bet ya never heard of him, but...
I don't know Steve, I recently acquired a number of unpublished manuscripts written by Fleischer, including some very long works titled 'A History...
You're welcome. I tried to send a huge amount of information about the Ketchel - Langford fight, but it was over 4,000 words and the posting limit...
View on Ketchel-Langford contest: The research I did, and comments from Langford and his manager, made it pretty clear to me that they were...
‘The Union’ newspaper account of the Walcott-Langford fight. Courtesy of NH State Library: “LAKE FIGHT WAS A DRAW. Walcott...
Here's a couple views on the Langford - Walcott bout: An article written by Arthur Lumley, editor of the New York Illustrated News, a leading...
Yes, good read, I highly recommend it.
Speaking of Tom Sharkey, I recently acquired an unpublished manuscript about him written by Nat Fleischer. He titled it 'Life and Battles of Tom...
Those three titles ought to keep you busy for a while.
Agreed, I learned quite a bit about Dillon while researching my upcoming biography about Billy Miske. Dillon was quite a fighter.
"Jersey Joe Walcott. I have been able to contact Walcott's family. I have contacted a few...but I am in serious consideration of getting enough...
"I've never heard of Blackburn saying this before either. I don't know you to doubt you, but I would like a source as confirmation." I don't...
