Mark "Too Sharp" Johnson was a great fighter with terrific skills and the best flyweight of his day who richly deserved his induction into the...
In my opinion, matching Ken Norton with any of the big punchers of the 1970s was a dumb idea. Norton simply couldn't cope with them. - Chuck...
Both baseball and boxing have wonderful social histories, yet baseball is the only one of the two sports to have a worthy library. I myself think...
Billy Papke was one strong individual as well as a terrific in-fighter. It is obvious that Georges Carpentier couldn't do well when there was a...
According to the California Death Records database on Ancestry.com, one Robert Fitzsimmons was born on November 26, 1896 in Texas and died on...
Young Bob Fitzsimmons was a journeyman heavyweight who was never stopped in sixty recorded bouts. It appears that he died while a resident of...
Young Bob Fitzsimmons, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., Joe Frazier Jr. (Hector Frazier) and Marvis Frazier are four of the five. - Chuck Johnston
In my opinion, trying to rate fighters active at the present time in comparison with fighters active during the period from 1900 to 1950 is a...
When fighting Jack Dempsey for the last time in 1918, Willie Meehan had 67 wins, 13 losses and 35 draws, according to Dempsey's record on BoxRec....
Willie Meehan's clownish, "Fat Boy" image overshadows the fact that he was a legitimate journeyman fighter who must have been a bantamweight or a...
During a period of two years ending in 1904, Sam McVey clearly lost four times, three of the bouts to Jack Johnson and the remaining one to Denver...
While attending the this year's California Boxing Hall of Fame ceremony and luncheon today, I talked to JJ Johnston (no relation), who had quite a...
Jack Hurley was very good as a corner advisor and a trainer in addition to excelling while managing fighters. It is too bad that such a boxing...
Mike Tyson never got enough credit for his genuine interest in the history of boxing. I don't know if he read that much about it, but it does...
I question how good the professional fighters were about 1900 when boxing under the Marquis of Queensberry Rules wasn't going full bore until the...
