As I have noted before, I have had a very tough time tracking down information about the early life of Sam McVea. Within the past few weeks, I...
The movie, Gentleman Jim, is extremely inaccurate. For one thing, women were not allowed watch boxing bouts in the United States during the late...
Aaron Pryor was an unorthodox fighter with tremendous stamina, a very high work rate, a huge heart and some underrated boxing skills. Although a...
Yes, I saw the great fight between Monty Meza Clay and Alan Herrera and thought it could be a FOTY candidate. Why weren't there more comments...
Nat Fleischer's top ten, all-time middleweight rankings which appeared in some publications during the 1960s and 1970s were as follows: 1....
It seems that Nat Fleischer and many other people of his generation thought that Stanley Ketchell was the greatest middleweight ever. Yet...
Big John Tate certainly couldn't take a good shot to the chin. - Chuck Johnston
I am a very pragmatic person. To me, the most important criterion in evaluating a fighter is his ring record. Keep in mind that a fighter's...
Was Jose Napoles at his absolute peak or a bit on the downside when he was the world welterweight champion? Certainly he was going downhill quite...
I don't think that Mike Tyson was willing to pay the price by the time he met Buster Douglas. But Evander Holyfield was willing to do it his...
That's interesting, but the last name of Sam's father was spelled "McVea," "McVey," or "McVeay," depending on the source. There was a number of...
It does appear that Mike Tyson needed a trainer who would make him toe the mark. After parting with Kevin Rooney, Tyson seemed to have trainers...
On his two available passport applications, Sam McVea did spell as his last name as "MacVey." He also listed his birthplace as "Welder," Texas....
John L. Sullivan may have been the most famous athlete, let alone the most famous boxer, of the 19th Century. - Chuck Johnston
It is a very big assumption that Teofilio Stevenson would become a top professional fighter, especially one who would have a decent chance to do...
