Yes, guys like McVey and Langford were much more fan friendly. Problem for them, like many offensive fighters today, is that when the Pavliks and...
Yes, given how wrong it turned out to be, it is funny. Opinions are like A-holes. Everyone's got one. Some will be right, some will be wrong....
I want to eat your children! :) Freaking hilarious. Great photo.
If playing it safe and not being a knockout artist means you can't fight and can't be a champion, then Bernard Hopkins was nothing. Yet, hmm,...
There is a reason why Jack Dempsey only fought one black man, and John Lester Johnson wasn't even anywhere near close to being among the best of...
Bowe KO1 or KO2, or KO whenever he happened to hit him, which I think would be sooner rather than later. Just because Jones, Jr. beat Ruiz doesn't...
Joe Louis was seriously jealous of Ali.
Anyone on here live in Paris? I need someone to go to the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and obtain those reports.
Rocky Raging Bull The Fighter
Don't forget even from the time of John L. Sullivan (and before) boxers had the law coming after them. Sullivan was arrested several times and...
And that's Denver Ed Martin standing behind him.
Did fixes possibly happen on rare occasion, or did some black fighters carry some white fighters here and there? Perhaps so. But in general, the...
Does anyone have access to or know how to direct me to obtain access to editions of La Boxe et Les Boxeurs from 1913 and 1914? I'm trying to find...
John L. Sullivan: The Career of the First Gloved Heavyweight Champion addresses this fight in great detail and uses three local primary sources,...
Yes, they interviewed me and several others. It is well done and they clearly put a lot of time and effort into it. It lasts about 1 hour 10 minutes.