Part 2 three. By the time Louis became champion, Haynes was all but washed up. Still, if they had met while they were both contenders, and...
BLACKS AND THE BROWN BOMBER By Charles R. Saunders SONAHHR Vice-President, Boxing If a poll were ever conducted to determine the most revered...
5/4/1936 – The Charleston Gazette Damon Runyon Classes Joe Louis With Greatest Punchers of Ring. “New York, May 3 – In three...
April 29, 1910 – Philadelphia Public Ledger – “…Each man got a square deal by the referee; both were paid well for their...
4/29/1910 - The Evening Telegram (N.Y. Paper) ‘Langford On Points’ General Verdict On Bout With Ketchel. Negro Fighter in Half of...
England’s Boxing magazine, issue May 14, 1910 account of the fight: “You would have to travel some distance before you found a...
The Philadelphia Record – Headline “Langford Bests Stanley Ketchel, Boxing Entirely on the Defensive the Black Man Landed Most Blows...
"I've never seen an account outside of Langford and his crew that indicates the fighters were giving any less than their best efforts. Quite the...
From the June 8, 1910 edition of the Arizona Democrat. The following quote is attributed to Joe Gan in an article titled 'Joe Gans Will Summer in...
Billy Miske and Billy Miske Jr. wasn't bad.
Another excerpt from 'Sam Langford, Boxing's Greatest Uncrowned Champion'. This was a quote from Australian promoter Hugh McIntosh:...
Excerprt from 'Sam Langford, boxing's Greatest Uncrowned Champion' He did however, face him in an exhibition that was arranged to benefit the...
Ouch, make that "what he chose to do."
Here's the excerpt from Johnson's 1920 biography 'Mes Combats': "I found him (Langford) one of the toughest adversaries I ever met in the ring. I...
However, from December of 1908 thru 1913 there was plenty of demand and interest in a rematch between the two. No promoter tried more to make the...
