Not to mention: (a) it differs from Greggains' statements before the fight (where he only threatened to rule it a no contest if Johnson wasn't...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/after-covid-19-took-his-father-son-fights-to-keep-his-iconic-dive-bar-in-times-square-alive/2021/11/15/a15f...
Also interesting that Hart apparently refused to fight unless Greggains officiated.
Yeah, so I’m pretty sure Seamus’s memory did not serve him correctly then. Just skimmed the relevant part of Pollack’s book, and it actually...
Nah, IIRC Seamus made a bunch of claims, without any real attribution, suggesting that Johnson didn't really hurt Hart much and that the fight...
The fair-minded sources seem very consistent: Hart ate a lot of jabs and took a lot of punishment, to the point that his face was noticeably...
Seamus confronted me with actual sources? Which ones?
I didn't intend any such implication. Honestly, I have no idea whatsoever why you've been liking all of the posts that rationalize the decision or...
Exactly.
Yeah, I find the apologetics fascinating.
I haven't read his book either (when I'm interested in these types of questions, I tend to do my own primary research instead of relying on...
I addressed that earlier in this thread: My personal view is that Johnson probably deserved the win by any sensible standards, but some minority...
Just to be clear, is this actually your understanding of how things were back then?
By "revisionism," I was referring to what I sensed was a growing and deeply misguided tendency in classic boxing circles to discuss the fight as...
Hart gets beat up by his much bigger opponent in a sloppy, low-skilled affair.
