I remember people were speculating (half-kiddingly) that a film of British journeyman Joe Beckett KO'ing Bombardier Billy Wells could be secret...
You have the wrong Tommy Burns. That was Tommy Burns of Australia who fought in the 1940's and died earlier this year.
Nelson-Wolgast is the best early boxing fight I've seen. Burns looks more impressive against Squires and Moir, two unspectacular opponents but...
It's a definite black mark on LaMotta's career. In the case of Pep and Dempsey, you don't actually have their admissions, so it's not as simple....
He certainly put on some muscle by the Tommy Burns fight, a fighter I consider superior to Marvin Hart. Johnson probably needed that loss to...
Gene Burton was also seen as a "policeman" for Ray Robinson at the time. He only fought his stablemate Robinson in boxing exhibitions, never...
Dempsey had been knocked down 9 times in the first round by a middleweight previously and was knocked down by the first punch Firpo threw because...
I agree and in the end the small Tommy Burns ended up being the rougher and the tougher of the two, Hart complained of fouling but could do little...
In Foreman's case he did that to his sparring partners as well. See this "boxing exhibition" for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MWjMZnsKRY
Hart I think had a light heavyweight build but the division wasn't seen as very important in those days. He wasn't a solid 190 pounds but he made...
I agree with that. Hart was a tough customer but he would be going after a bigger, stronger man who was entirely comfortable fighting off pressure...
Tyson said that Holmes was telling people to let him up while on the canvas. I don't know if he could have gotten up, most probably not, but the...
