My top five are: 1) Gene Fullmer 2) Eugene Fullmer 3) Gene (Headbutt) Fullmer 4) Gene (Rabbit Punch) Fullmer 5) Jack Dempsey (I just re-watched...
[MEDIA] [MEDIA] The commentary of this fight says it was 1942, but it was really the Sept. '48 fight
Ezzard's second earliest filmed fight (after Charles-Marshall) was against Jimmy Bivins on Sept. 13, 1948. It was a fight for a charity so several...
It all makes sense to me.
McLarnin immediately came to my mind with this thread and I was working on a posting, but you beat me to it. Here is my listing: Fidel LaBarba...
That's the way it should always be.
I mostly agree with your analyses, William, but I have to quibble a little. You are a little higher on Shavers than I am. I favor Chuvalo and...
George Chemeres had code words he used with his last fighter John Palaki that nobody else was supposed to understand. If he wanted Palaki to...
If that happened, the grant money they received wouldn't be for fight films. It probably would be for something else and then you wouldn't be...
Tyson Fury would not be able to wade through all of the great heavyweights in history. He'd win some and he'd lose some. And there'd be some...
Good call with the Overlin analogy. Based on the Henneberry and Dejohn footage, Ken was very much an eccentric in-and-out type of fighter,...
Eddie Cotton fought -- Archie Moore, Harold Johnson, Jose Torres, Bob Foster, Irish Bob Murphy, Larry Watson, Andy Kendall, Wayne Thornton (3),...
Joe Gans, Mike Gibbons, Barbados Joe Walcott are among my early (and all-time) favorites. It's hard for me to pick among them, but if cornered I'd...
Tiger-Fullmer 2 Fullmer boxed in a clumsy fashion and Tiger tried to track him down without success. I personally never found Fullmer to be an...
The film looks about right to me. It's just that they hired Fred Astaire as the referee. I remember reading somewhere that Ginger Rogers refereed...
