Hold on now. My understanding is that Dempsey did not in fact "try" to enlist during 1917-1918 but that a witness from Great lakes Naval Training...
I'll put it this way: Did Greb occasionally resort to foul tactics? Yes, absolutely. Particularly later in his career. Did he resort to these...
Darcy is lucky we murdered him before Greb could...
Sources please... Outside of New York, where Greb got consistently bad press, the mention of him being an overly dirty fighter in the volumes...
I dont get where some of this **** comes from... When Greb lost to Mike Gibbons, Mike was in his prime and the best fighter in the world. Greb...
Like he did to Bryan Downey, Roland Todd, Willie KO Brennan, Soldier Bartfield, Mike Gibbons, Maxie Rosenbloom, Augie Ratner...
For a "Historian Supreme" thats a completely uneducated ascertion.
That had a lot more to due with Carpentier than Dempsey. Carpentier would literally get mobbed by thousands of people in Paris just crossing the...
I didnt think there was anything special about the neary ward fight. but then again, it was for a title...
Oh yes, o'dowd, like most st. Paul fighters, revered mike gibbons.
I am also wanting to know if the sharkey book is good. I have the taylor book but haven't read it yet.
It survived because odowd paid out of his own pocket to have it filmed and kept it all those yrs. He then gave it to mike gibbons because odowd...
Yeah. He certainly did. Even mike criticized him after his loss to greb saying that he had gotten away from the st. Paul style that made them...
Mike by far and Tommy would have admitted it. Mike would have (and did) say that Tommy had more potential but that potential was never fully...
There is a thread right now, that in all seriousness asks why Greb ( a 5 foot 8 158 pounder who was blind in one eye and wasnt a big puncher)...
