For starters, watch as many kinescope of Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday night fights from the '50s and '60s that you can get hold of and then...
Joe Brown, Willie Pep, Kid Chocolate, Tony Canzoneri, Ray Robinson (of course). Another name came to mind, so I'm adding Luis Rodriquez who maybe...
Jack Sharkey as well.
So's mine!!
McGrain, you should ban yourself from this forum for a while for such talk! :);):boxing1
Billy Marsh
I think it was Gene Ace Armstrong who for good reason was highly regarded in the late '50s, early '60s. He had some very, very good wins against...
Gene Ace Armstrong, Artie Diamond, and Buster Mathis (for a minute until Buster found working with Cus too much to handle) come to mind.
Thank you. I referred to Boxrec and mistakenly used his weight listed for the Tommy Jackson elimination fight.
Let's see, now help me here. Didn't Cus, find, train, and manage Patterson up until the Liston fights? If so, might that have influenced his...
Exactly! Referee Arthur Mercante said that Tiger was the strongest man he ever had to break from a clinch. And this was after he had refereed...
Griffith v. Paret III. I saw it live on the tube back in the day, and the picture sticks in my mind. I don't need to see it again. Also, I don't...
Good point. It's "Wills", not "Willis", by the way. Sorry, I'm kind of a nitpicker when it comes to the spelling of names!
I didn't have much money in the 70s and was just fishing around. By then, Jacobs' company had been selling quite a few fight films for home use on...
... more like a 10-lb bag of salt.
