"Jeff quit when the top black fighters were becoming undeniable" He actually retired right after Marvin Hart defeated Johnson. Hart would have...
I read Johnson's autobiography decades ago. I don't remember his ratings, but I'll take your word for it. It was written many years before this...
The issue isn't whether Dempsey ever fought for other promoters than Rickard. It is was Dempsey under contract to Rickard at the time he...
All I can say is that Rickard is quoted by Time Magazine (an excellent source) as saying he had Dempsey under contractual obligation at the time...
I quoted what Johnson is credited with writing. Don't forget that the monthly date of The Ring ran well ahead of its publication date. I find it...
Rickard claimed he had a contract with Dempsey at the time of the Dempsey-Wills signing. Time Magazine 10-19-1925 "Jack Dempsey signed a...
A fair evaluation. Just on the "elk" story. I have read it was a deer, and white-tailed or mule deer are far smaller than elk. A weight of 200...
The relevance issue was about the color line. I was not talking about Jeff's in ring performances, which certainly do matter, so why not stick to...
I just found it odd reading through this thread that it became so much a bash Jeff thread with Jack Johnson actually more in evidence than...
"rather than risk him against a top black fighter with the size and power to spark him." I wouldn't deny that Jeff earned scorn on this score for...
Okay, no doubt there was hype about Jeffries. But my observation is that the Jeff hype never compared to the Dempsey hype. Anyway, is the...
"gives a little boldness to the racists of the era . . . without the fear of it actually happening?" You mean like all the Dempsey fans who are...
just on the filming of the Jeffries-Sharkey fight, I came across info on it which seems logical in an article called "The History of the Discovery...
I don't buy into the viewpoint that Robinson had such a gifted path. He beat the lightweight champion in 1941 when Robinson himself was still...
looking at the middles from 1941 on in The Ring annual rankings in 1941 Champion--Tony Zale 1---Georgie Abrams 2---Ezzard Charles (Abrams goes...
