It sounds like a great article for The Ring or such. I would sure like to read the like louis.
Agree with you totally. Ipay4leavingnot is one of the most unknowledgeble posters I have ever seen here.
Until this posting I wasn't sure if you were just arrogant or arrogant and boxing illiterate. You have now clarified it.
"No" would have been an ok answer too.
Let me add two things not mentioned on Dempsey so far. His book on how to box was one of the two most informative I have of many and includes...
Thanks Burt, sometimes I wish I had seen all the fighters and bouts you did, at least were fortunate to have you here so we can read about them...
I'm more interested in the Jacob's-Fleisher conversations if they had any? Can you fill me in at all here Slakka?
I'm sure Jack Johnson had his reasoning on the ko's he suffered before becoming champ also, and for avoiding the best fighter in the division...
There have always been hit and clinchers, the game at the time of Johnson's prime was often the way the Jeffries-Sharkey film shows it, move abit,...
Houdini, I recall a Ring article from the seventies where various scribes deducted the same about Tunney, that he cared little about boxing, but...
Man Jack gets a negative lookback from most Eastsiders (as Burt said). Bottom line, a great infighter, a tremendous left hook, great speed at his...
I can't see Bruno coming out the way he would have to in order to shake Ken and have a chance to stop him. He wasn't like Shavers that way. Ken...
For me, even though Luguna was at the end of his career, the first bout with Buchanan has always stood out here as two high skilled boxers head to...
A great matchup! Kenny "sticks" the kid enough for the clear win.
Dang, I've seen many but the one who stands out here is Jack Johnson. This skill was made to order for his style and strength.
