Many years ago I had the opportunity to read a biography about Young Stribling written by an author named Jimmy Jones titled King of the...
There really wasn't much of value in the Seattle Post Intelligence though. By far and away the coverage by the Seattle Times was the most...
Surf, I see that you do mention the fight between the pair in that chapter, but like Boxrec had it noted as taking place in Seattle. I was...
"Sometime around the year 1900, an enterprising man named Malcolm McDonald decided to turn some beach property at the south end of the island into...
I only recently discovered that Joe Gans fought on the island I grew up on and submitted the following article for a small local sports paper in...
Mountain Fighters. Lost Tales of Welsh Boxing by Lawrence Davies is a very well written and meticulously researched piece of work that will fill...
"Put this right alongside Sir Douglas Haig's contention from the same era that the machine gun will never be a match to the cavalry in battle. "...
I thought the following was an interesting observation made about weight a long time ago by Billy Madden, one time manager of heavyweight John L....
Seattle Star - July 7, 1906 "John L., Sober 15 Months, Talks Pugilism The prize ring terror is now 48 years old and weighs 175 - no joke. His...
Great stuff Rocky. I am not sure but I think I may have heard this before. I remember hearing him speak and say something about watching the girls...
Round five – Sam started in with plain determination to finish the fight. A few passes and Lang went down from a crushing right to the body....
Tried to post some of my notes concerning the Langford-Lang fight earlier today but the text was too long. Here it is in two posts: Author...
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