Take a look at the record of Kid Gavilan on BoxRec. Before fighting Robinson twice, Gavilan had a couple of bouts which drew good gates. Gavilan...
Keep in mind that Sugar Ray Robinson was the world welterweight champion as late as the early 1950s while Charley Burley was a middleweight for...
Even though Archie Moore was an all-time great, Sugar Ray Robinson was a far greater fighter. For close to two decades, Robinson was the best...
I liked the movie, Rocky, until Apollo Creed came onto the scene. Afterwards, the movie became far too cartoon-like. Moreover, the cartoon-like...
I thought that Greg Page had the talent to be much better, but it became obvious very early in his career that he weighed too much for his bouts....
I also love Buster Keaton. Battling Butler has footage showing the interior of the famed Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, only a short time...
My two favorite boxing movies are the Set-Up, a very gritty film made in 1949 starring Robert Ryan and Audrey Totter, and Raging Bull. By the...
Both Jimmy McLarnin and Fidel LaBarba became world class fighters within a very short period of time. As a result, it is apparent that their...
There is relatively little professional boxing activity in the world, especially in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, at the...
There are large number of lost feature films which were produced from the 1890s to the 1930s. This is despite the fact there were usually a...
In the 1910 U.S. Census records, I found a 27-year-old "pugilist" named Dan Brice who was living with his wife, Lila, and two step-daughters in...
I have never been able to find Danny "Kid" Webster, a Los Angeles bantamweight/featherweight of the 1900s and 1910s born in Canterbury, England,...
Take a look at the records of Neil Clisby, Kid Reese and Red Watson on the BoxRec website. Yes, they were club fighters or journeymen, but their...
I couldn't find any prison records of Jack Chase. - Chuck Johnston
Other former and future fighters who were found on the California, Prison and Correctional Records, 1851-1950 database include: 1. K.O....
