This is not accurate. Nitrate films can survive, even under poor conditions. Its less likely but Ive found Nitrate films in deplorable conditions...
This is such a nonsense excuse. Me thinks the lady doth protest too much. As stated above, boxing was in the best position it had ever been in and...
Boxing was in the best position, legally, it had ever been in when this fight was held. Post WW1, with thousands of young men coming home having...
Quarry. Im just going to leave this here: Alex Stewart and Tommy Morrison. Neither of those guys could box or counterpunch like Quarry. Now if...
You can disagree all you want but the facts dont lie. Aileen Eaton offered Liston a Quarry fight more than once and he turned it down. Bill Miller...
Go get a ****ing clue. Aileen Eaton and Bill Miller both offered Liston fights with Quarry more than once and he turned them down. Thats a...
I think Liston was, as you say, punching the clock. Getting paydays as long as he could. He was still a dangerous guy if motivated and in shape...
Martin and Chuvalo were not "penciled in." Because of the odd ending of Quarry-Chuvalo the Garden wanted to them to have a rematch. Chuvalo wanted...
Liston wanted no part of anyone who could fight post Ali. Period. He talked a lot about Frazier and Quarry but it was all just talk. Aileen Eaton...
Do you really think you are going to get somewhere in an argument trying to badmouth Zivic,a HOFer and Jackie Wilson an Olympic Silver Medalist...
No, you said Graziano was a junior middleweight. He wasnt. The division didnt even exist at the time. It was your way of making an excuse for him....
The idea that Baer didnt have the heart to defend his title against a C level opponent like Braddock is laughable. Baer, unmotivated or not trying...
There was speculation at the time that he threw the fight to avoid being tied up with the MSG promotional contract which he was unhappy with. Had...
Jr Middleweight didnt exist, even a concept, at this time. Graziano was a middleweight. He got a shot at the middleweight title by beating...
I have an interview done with Vikki LaMotta in the 1980s where she goes into the LaMotta-Graziano fight. She says (and Im paraphrasing here)....
