He was quoted as saying "Their contrasting styles make it a toss-up".
You could trim this by replacing Carpentier, Loughran and Baer with Jack Sharkey.
The NBA were the precursor to the WBA and were posting ratings at least as early as the 30s.
What surprised me about this was you'd think they'd have Jeffries taking a beating early and then wearing Ali down. Instead, they have Ali...
Well, the government didn't actually strip Ali of the title, it was the WBA and NYSAC. In Johnson's time, there was no international body capable...
Very strange, this idea that Liston's reputation was based on the Westphal and Patterson fights. In 1960 Liston scored one-sided victories over...
The thing about that H.C. Walker article is it doesn't say the blow was foul, it says it was unsporting. Pictures of the fight show Miske rising...
Which is why I didn't say anything about Liston getting hit while laughing.
Not exactly an unbiased article since it's Marshall's own account. Certainly no one else who was there seems to remember Marshall decking Liston...
I don't think there's any doubt that it happened. McCormick claimed later that he'd gone in expecting a sparring exhibition and Sullivan...
From the accounts of the fight, Young was caught by an uppercut while rushing in and just sort of crumpled to the canvas vertically. It doesn't...
It's easy to dismiss them with hindsight but at the time Firpo and Fulton, at least, were considered very serious opposition and widely seen as...
I looked this guy up, and found quite a few references to a Pennsylvania Black Gunboat Smith in the Harrisburg Telegraph, but he seems to have...
Seems like a strange time to be digging up this thread. Actually Foreman was down for 11 seconds, the commentator just lost track of the...
As a piece of trivia, "Barry" was probably W Barrington Dalby, who'd been a fixture on the inter-round summaries for many years.
