Well thought out.
The businessmen of Shelby wanted a heavyweight championship match to put the town on the map, so they contacted Minnesota promoter Mike Collins...
Good health is a chancy thing. You have it until you don't!
It was those annual month-long periods of fasting which would have extended his career!
I think Wills would have drawn the white line and held the championship until Louis came along in 1935.
This is an attempt to fully address the issue posed in this thread, which to my mind has been leapfrogged by everyone's eagerness to resurrect all...
In the days you are talking about, most every state in the U.S. had a boxing commission and if the commissioners voted to recognize a fight as...
With some fighters you can hear the floor squeak as they dig their foot into the canvas and rotate it while twisting their hips to gain leverage.
Sam Langbird
Salmon Langford
Minnesota was not a big-money market. Promoter Tommy O'Loughlin couldn't afford to pay Robinson what he wanted to fight a guy like Burley, and...
Jimmy Wilde was an undersized flyweight. Tommy Burns at heavyweight.
Especially when you consider his amateur career.
To me, it was more of an exhibition than a fight.
He was a growing boy! I think he eventually would have had trouble making the l-h limit, so his time window to beat all those guys in hypothetical...
