As a 61-year-old, I believe the most important heavyweight fight of my lifetime was the first bout between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali. The...
I remember that the late Jim Healy, a sports broadcaster based in Los Angeles, referred to Jimmy Young as "an agony fighter" because it was agony...
The entire Western Hemisphere is America if one wants to be technical about it. After all, the Western Hemisphere is divided into two parts,...
Muhammad Ali did more than his share of clinching and didn't make anyone forget Joe Frazier in terms of aggressiveness and throwing a lot of...
I have seen far worse decisions than the one involving the world heavyweight championship bout between Muhammad Ali and Jimmy Young, but I think...
Today, I received an e-mail saying that Larry Middleton, a heavyweight who was active during the 1960s and 1970s, has passed away. - Chuck...
One enjoyable feature about the Live Fast, Die Young book is that there are descriptions of certain opponents of Harry Greb who were club fighters...
While I rank Sam McVey behind Jack Johnson, Sam Langford, Joe Jeannette and Harry Wills, Jeannette edges McVey out by only a small margin in my...
It appears that Sam McVey lived in Oxnard from 1901 to 1904. During that time, Oxnard was a new town which was founded during the late 1890s when...
While watching footage of a bout between Tommy Loughran and Mickey Walker, I noticed that Walker had a very tough time hitting Loughran throughout...
While I think that Sam McVey was not as formidable as Jack Johnson, Sam Langford, Joe Jeannette and Harry Wills, he was a truly great fighter in...
About 25 or 30 years ago, I could not find any report of any bout that Sam McVey supposedly had in Salinas, California or Oxnard, California...
A number of the so-called white hope heavyweights had a very short shelf life, especially compared to the best black heavyweights of the time....
Sam McVey has a losing record when facing the likes of Jack Johnson, Sam Langford, Joe Jeannette and Harry Wills, but he did have some wins over...
When Sam McVey had his first known professional bout, there already was some boxing activity in the new small agricultural town of Oxnard,...
