A huge number of American fighters served during at least one war during the 20th Century, especially during World War II. As someone in his...
Gene Tunney was an avowed disciple of Mike Gibbons, who may have been the most admired pure boxer of his day. Gibbons piled up a tremendous...
Even if there are more boxers at the present time than at anytime in the past (which I find hard to believe), the boxers of the past usually were...
Unlike Charley Burley, Harold Johnson eventually became a world champion. Johnson also made a much better living from boxing than Burley did....
Randy "Tex" Cobb was one heck of a spontaneous quipster, much like Max Baer. I remember seeing a telecast or a tape of Cobb sitting on a stool...
During the late 1880s and early 1890s in Los Angeles, fight cards were staged at small, short-lived athletic clubs on a fairly infrequent basis....
After looking at the BoxRec list of professional boxing shows which took place in Washington during 1933 and 1934, I find it hard to believe that...
As someone who saw Gerry ****ey fight Larry Holmes in person, I think he did very well considering that he had faced very soft opposition up to...
I am not saying that an 1890s bout between Jim Jeffries and Hank Griffin in private shouldn't be included on either fighter's record. But I was...
In New York City during the 1910s, there were so many boxing shows taking place that it would be very hard for local newspapers to have coverage...
Is it possible that Jim Jeffries fought Hank Griffin in a private setting during the 1890s? If it was a public bout in Los Angeles, I think that...
BoxRec has a 99-page list of professional boxing shows which took place in the United Kingdom during 1931. According to my calculations, there...
BoxRec has a 268-page list of professional boxing shows which took place in the United States during 1929. Since each full page has 25 boxing...
There were various stories about Jim Jeffries having his professional debut in a bout with Hank Griffin, but I never could find any contemporary...
The number of English boxers who had at least two hundred bouts is staggering, the great majority of them being active before World War II. On...
