Eddie Gregg hovered at around #15, getting up to #13 on a couple of occasions, in Ring's ratings between the summer of 1984 and the spring of...
Ideally I'd have a really good lawyer and management team assembled. I'd have people who really knew boxing and who were really good at promotion,...
Ran across this thread today and thought I'd bump it up. Is this something anybody has thought about? As one poster said, scanning is a pain....
Yep. The Joe Louis Story from 1953. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joe_Louis_Story
To add a little more to Sangria’s excellent analysis, I looked up the Ring magazine ratings for each fighter’s opponents from the issue just prior...
Floyd had talked of wanting a shot at Frazier if he was happy with his own performance against Bonavena (he wasn't). How does Floyd do, say, in...
Young was in line for the winner of Holmes-Norton if he'd beaten Ocasio. If memory serves, if Young had beaten Ocasio in the rematch Young still...
Here's silent footage of Henry Clark stopping Merritt. [MEDIA]
Agreed. Around the time, fairly recently, of the opening of the African American History Museum, a local Washington DC news station ran a short...
Ah, that answers it. Thanks Perry!
Pardon my lack of knowledge on this one, but I'm curious about the connection between Norton and Frazier. I've been reading for decades that they...
Even when Foreman wasn't boxing, he'd show up from time to time. In February 1975 he showed up on Six Million Dollar Man, and in early 1976 he was...
It's definitely true that newspapers printed NBA rankings, along with those of Ring, for years. Boxing Illustrated was the one mag I could find as...
According to BoxRec, Moore was favored 9 to 5 going in. Floyd was criticized as someone who hadn't earned his shot.
The win over Moorer was only part of what established George as an ATG in his second career. Granted, none of these accomplishments is as notable...
