Charles was known as a natural born fist fighter by people who knew him as a teenager. He took on all comers - I've read that a couple of...
How would the HW ATG list of street fighters look? It's pure speculation and based on anecdotal info, but here is a shortlist: 1. Liston 2....
Liston-Clay I couldn't believe it. I still can't.
Ingo wouldn't fight in the US because of the tax structure. Liston wanted him and Ingo wouldn't fight because of that.
I'll bet Marciano didn't give Joe any money. Rocky was as tightwad as they came. He might have helped Joe on the PR front.
Liston left Arkansas at 17 (or so) and went to St. Louis to live with his mother. He could have made the change then and no one would have noticed...
Could be 20...could be 30...hard to tell. What is the date of that clipping?
The "Liston was a bully" line has about worn itself out. Liston was like any other fighter. He had strengths and he had weaknesses. His biggest...
When you have a sharecropper family with 25 kids living in a cardboard shack with no birth certificates anything could have happened. Liston...
I don't know when Liston was born, but the US Census is not that reliable. It's full of gaps. I've done some work with the 1930 and 1940 Census...
I heard a few of those fights when they were broadcast. I think the final was Dempsey vs Marciano with Marciano winning.
I think the truth will come out. There are still people alive who know what happened. There aren't many and they won't be around much longer....
We agree on the bottom line- he deserves to be dismissed. We arrived there in different ways, but we reached the same conclusion. I would never...
I just listened to the Bernstein interview. Gallender is not a fool. You can tell from the first hour of the video that he knows his subject and...
It was a dive. The only lingering questions I have are why and was Ali in on it. The medium stuff has blown Gallender's credibility with me. What...
