I don't know about "the best" in terms of its accuracy and rigor of research but I thought that Nick Tosche's "Night Train/The Devil and Sonny...
Yeah, that's a good idea, though you're gonna get some fights -though they're worth it because it will be better if you're mind is open. I just...
Funny, I was just sitting in Barnes & Noble bookstore on Huntington Ave in Boston reading that part (-right on the site where Greb fought Kid...
Interesting stuff, lufcrazy. And you deserve a commendation for the work you put into it.
Duffy died in 1890 ...Needham "usurps" claim? How does that happen? Needham was only a claimant as was Smith and Ryan, but then Smith beat Tom...
(You've read about the cancelled second fight before Mee.)
Eight months was considered less "immediate" back then, and remember, Liston was looking to redeem himself. He was also really an alcoholic by...
Remember Hagler commentating Toney-McCallum I? He was all prepared to give his belt or the Ring belt to the winner in a symbolic gesture and what...
My understanding of what you are doing is that you are identifying the premiere fighter in the division. They are and were not necessarily the...
I don't like bad decisions anymore than anyone else, but to overrule them because you feel they were bad decisions and therefore revise history is...
Again, there is no need to pay any attention to the trinkets. It just makes more sense to say that Lewis became the true successor in 1997. He did...
Briggs lost the hell out of the match, but he got the decision. However, if we start overruling judges we will have to revise ALOT of boxing...
By the way, the only reason why the "lineal" champion must often fight less than the best is because of ....surprise! ....The sanctioning bodies!...
I wouldn't give the crown to anyone. There are rules -or should be rules- to decide who is king. I devised my own and at times, they force...
We forget how many middleweights and light heavyweights in history used to leave their divisions for the fun of picking on the big lugs. If you...
