If you read your posts more carefully, then Poof!! The mistakes would all disappear!
Anything to do with St. Paul-style fighters, eg. Mike and Tom Gibbons, Jock Malone, Billy Petrolle, Jimmy Delaney, Johnny Ertle, Billy Miske,...
I agree with the outcome, but Wepner might last longer than five rounds
In my post I focused on the way Ali treated Joe Frazier who is presumably the person Barff set up as the main focus in this thread. I admire Ali...
Yeah, well, Ali never had to take the public sh-t that Frazier did from him, so I give Joe a free pass. F-ck Muhammad's "twinkle".
Patterson an ATG?
And, of course, Jack Hurley. As I've maybe posted before, Boone Kirkman told me that Hurley used to tell him to dig his feet into the canvas. And...
Certainly the stamp of approval, at least as far as punching-the-heavy-bag technique goes!
This is about as close as we can get to a definitive answer!
Sounds like a lot of after-the-fact puffery to me. Something somebody made up after Rocky became a popular champion. You know, something that...
This is also confusing because in the thread's title you ask about "boxers," but in your opening post you call them "fighters." The first scenario...
As matchmaker of Madison Square Garden, Marciano's de-facto manager Al Weill had a working relationship with Frankie Carbo who controlled the...
I'm on board for that revision.
Liston was not yet that much of a factor when Ingo won the title. Ingemar had knocked out leading contender Eddie Machen in one round (then No. 1...
Former bantamweight champion Johnny Coulon was the man who taught him the most about boxing per the late J. J. Johnson. Coulon ran a boxing gym in...
