I'm a big fan of Mills Lane and Mitch Halpern. Mitch left us way too soon. I've told this story before here... in 1995 I was dating a woman and...
Zanon was doing surprisingly well against Norton before he inevitably got caught. He and Alfredo Evangelista must've had connections with Don...
I read on one of these forums some months back that he was suffering from dementia. At least he's a peace now. Condolences to his family and...
We were saving Jack Dempsey for you, of course. In all seriousness, I can't believe I didn't think of him. He was certainly boxing's ambassador....
I enjoyed that. Jim Jacobs was an interesting guy. Imagine the films that would've been lost without his interest. Too bad he didn't live to see...
I hope nobody took that as an insult to the original poster. It's sad in the sense of guys fighting on too long.
First, great post. But Mercer did get his props after the Holyfield fight. Then he didn't fight for a year. He got his props again after losing...
I don't know... it's a sad tournament... In Holmes vs. Weaver II in 2000, Holmes still looked like a boxer, whereas Weaver looked like a...
It was Ken Norton vs. Ron Stander. It was on the televised undercard of Ali-Young in April 1976. Thing is, I just, as I was typing, realized I was...
Archie Moore. Founded "ABC" - Any Boy Can to work with kids. Emmanuel Steward. Rocky Marciano. Privately he may have had strange ideas,...
I get duped by auto-correct all the time. I usually catch it, but sometimes I don't. Carlos Karate, the bantamweight champ of the mid-to-late...
If you want.
I'd pick Patterson. They were scheduled to fight in November 1966, but Floyd pulled out.
Describe it? It was a heavyweight fight between a ranked black guy, and an unranked white guy who'd gotten a title shot four years before. Both...
Rondon and Ramos weren't ranked when they fought Lyle. Middleton, in the first bout, was lower top-10. Peralta was top-15. Bonavena, Ellis, and...
