Well, it looks like Ted Wadkins was actually Ted Hamilton. Boxrec doesn't include the Shavers fight on his record, but it does say he had a bout...
From Shavers' autobiography: "On October 17, 1980, I knocked out somebody in a fight in West Palm Beach, Florida. The only thing I'm sure about...
The other theory is that the liniment was being used to treat Liston's sore shoulder and got rubbed onto Ali's forehead in the clinches. That's...
Smelling salts were a standard part of an American cornerman's kit. It's doubtful that Dundee even knew that Britain had a blanket ban on...
A couple of articles about this - neither of which are definitive proof that it happened. This one is the text of the affidavit which Fulton...
It was a health thing, he saw it as a kind of detox, cleansing his system of impurities.
Supposedly he fasted during February because it's the shortest month and a slow one for boxing. Who knows, maybe that's why in 1915/16 he was...
Jeffries was very explicit about his retirement and even refereed the Marvin Hart - Jack Root fight to give it his blessing as being for the...
I remember reading that he carried on boxing even when he was almost completely blind. He'd always been a good infighter so he would just sort of...
It looked like both fighters thought Cooper had won. The way Cooper turned to the referee expecting to have his hand raised while Bugner just...
I don't know how anyone could watch this fight and see Johnson being doubled over by a body blow in the second, or think that he made any serious...
The quote is real enough. As Hugh McIlvanney wrote at the time it was "a confirmation of continuing pride rather than a logical analysis." Ali...
There wasn't much financial incentive to take pictures of the action back then. Newspapers weren't routinely illustrating their stories with...
Great story. I remember reading how when he visited Teofilo Stevenson in Cuba in the 90s, he did some sparring with Stevenson and some other guys...
The UP report says that from 10 rows back it looked like Charles was winning but from closer you could see the damage Ray's punches had done....
