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Because he was fighting an overrated, predictable, and protected 168 pounder?
I dont really buy that Tunney never had a drink of alcohol or a woman before he fought Dempsey. He was from an Irish Catholic family where alcohol...
He became a raging drunk after he retired. Im not sure when that started but it may well have hurt his reign later on.
Where is 1987?
Against Freddie Little he suffered a bad cut which impared his vision. In the second Griffith fight the same cut was reopened having the same...
Dumbass thread...
You have to keep in mind that at that point both angott and zivic could demand a large percentage of the gate while robinson, despite being very...
Robinson earned $6,900 for Zanelli (and that was after being shorted by promoters). For Armstrong he got about $20,000, for Zivic around $15,000,...
Im not saying they were "made up" per se. What Im saying is that they genuinely wanted to fight Robinson and genuinely made offers (at least in...
Then why didnt they? The press has been hyping up Pac-Mayweather for years now literally and yet there was no groundswell for Robinson Burley in...
This is the exact instance Im talking about. O'Loughlin could not come up with enough money, financial backers, or a large enough venue. The match...
How about the promoter? Who was the promoter? A matchmaker? How about any one of the dozens of sportswriters who were a lot better plugged into...
There was also a war on which complicated things in a major way. Titles were frozen, films were not being made, revenues were way down, etc etc....
Independant sources...
