He used the excuse of arthritis to postpone the 1936 match with Schmeling. The NBA and the NY Commission weren't in a hurry to challenge the claim...
Canzie. Too shifty, too slick, hits harder. Ritchie had basic skills, but Tony was an innovator as far as movement went. He wouldn't just square...
A majority if not all, of the news reports about the Dempsey-Greb sparring session I have read on this forum reported that Greb outfought Dempsey....
Dempsey ducked everybody in 1922, 1924, and 1925. Greb defeated Tommy Gibbons in 1922. That arguably would have made Harry the leading heavyweight...
Yes, I was thinking about Jack Johnson, but his situation was brought on by the tension of the racist environment of that particular match so I...
That type of behavior simply wasn't in Patterson's DNA. That sh-t didn't really start until Ali came along. Until then fighters pretty much acted...
Good question. That changes the outcome, IMO. Loughran defeats the young, inexperienced, and light Patterson.
If so, only as a punching bag. The only thing going for him is that he was a croucher somewhat like Godoy, but unlike Godoy he wasn't a clutcher...
Good point. Even France in the 30s had a better middleweight than Cerdan in the '40s, that is Marcel Thil. He handled Gorilla Jones and Lou...
Your assessment is exactly as mine has been. I too saw him fight "live" in real time back in the day. He was really a classy fighter and I think...
Anything could happen!
I thought he had eye problems, too. No?
That was Archie's argument. Archie defeated Johnson when Archie was in his prime light heavyweight years and Johnson was still improving. I agree...
The recent thread pitting Bob Pastor against Lennox Lewis is his silliest yet. Pastor was a fine boxer, but Lewis was at least his equal in that...
I would have loved to see it. As a matter of fact, I would love to see Galento fight anybody in the flesh.
