But there's no actual evidence of that, it's just an unlikely story dreamt up by people determined to believe that Liston was already an old man...
Brilliant, I see their number is 28. There's a company that was at the forefront of new technology.
Most of the round-by-round accounts don't bother much with the second half, where apparently not much of anything happened!...
The UP report said that most of the ringside press scored it 4-3-3 for Charles.
You know what, you're probably right.
Most of the guys listed here were no.1 contenders or close to it. There must be countless half-forgotten fringe contenders who made the top 10 at...
I admit I'd never heard of this fighter till I opened this thread but the Library of Congress site is great for this kind of thing, specially as...
I'm pretty sure no one said anything about The Ring which is, after all, only a magazine - its ratings don't have any special status.
No, Rischer was ranked when he fought Williams: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VQdLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CiMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1214,5593759 Rischer's...
My mistake - an error in snipping bits out of the "Quote" tag rather than confusion over identity but careless all the same!
Not strictly true since Roger Rischer was ranked 9th when Williams flattened him in 3 rounds (though stopping the rising young Ernie Terrell in 7...
I've heard this narrative before but I don't really buy it. If Layne was ruined by Marciano and Charles in '51 it means that he was already...
Well, when we're talking about how much credit Walcott and Charles should get for their collective record of 2 wins and 2 losses against Layne, I...
Marciano's opponents weren't exactly blowing away the likes of Rex Layne and Nino Valdes so I don't see any reason to think they'd have done...
Also Elmer Ray, who went on to beat Ezzard Charles and Jersey Joe Walcott after being KO'd in one by Turkey Thompson.
