As Suzie says, Williams was ranked 10th by the NBA going into the second Liston fight. They had actually had him in their top 10 as early as 1958,...
No worries, I enjoyed the quiz. Interesting to see just how many parallels there are.
I tried to make the second one Benitez, Leonard, Duran and Hearns, except Leonard was already lineal champion when he beat Hearns.
Liston was supposed to fight Johnson way back in '56 but it got cancelled when Johnson was injured in training. A relatively green Liston against...
Liston, Ali, Frazier and Foreman, right?
It's John Gardner and Joe Awome (a journeyman British heavyweight). Ali was comically overweight but apparently still capable of impressing in...
Well, I shall raise you an Associated Press report which doesn't mention a 15th round knockdown at all....
Looking at the round by round, it says the knockdown in the 3rd was the only one, but it does also mention Choynski slipping to his knees in the...
The accounts I've seen say there was just the one knockdown, in either the second or the third, and Choynski apparently bounced up unhurt. No one...
What the story really implies is that the mob thought they had the fight fixed and then realised they didn't - the guy starts by confidently...
My point is despite his grand plans for a heavyweight tourney I don't think McIntosh's ability to cover Johnson's guarantee was ever put to the...
I don't think the part about Johnson being there in person can be accurate - in August 1911 he was in London. As I understand it, later that...
According to this Choynski floored Fitzsimmons in the third but punched himself out trying to finish him off and was helpless when the fight was...
It's a bit of a stretch calling Jeannette "green" when he last fought Johnson. Even Boxrec lists 21 bouts for him by that stage, and it's unlikely...
I read an old article somewhere (I didn't keep the link, unfortunately), which said that Johnson, having accepted a bizarre clause in the contract...
