Because he was.
This is the best post that I have seen in a long time.
Wow! I almost edited my post to add Body and Soul. Great minds think alike I guess!
Nothing I've ever seen beats "The Champ" 1931 version starring Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper. Beery won the Academy Award for best actor. Others...
Too early.
Jack Hurley, WC Heinz, Ray Arcel, Jock Malone, Jack Blackburn, and Jack Johnson
How did he score it?
Well, it's just been my opinion based on what I observed at the time. I saw both his fights with Pastrano and at least one of his fights with...
Jack Johnson would undoubtedly still be Nat's No. 1 All-time heavyweight!!
I wasn't aware of all this, either at the time or up until the present day.
Not sure I ever saw the fights from the Forum. The ones I remember I think were from the Olympic and I loved watching them. They were shown in...
The difference between an under-achiever and a fighter who just wasn't quite good enough to scale what some people consider the fistic heights in...
Marcel Cerdan-Holman Williams, Georges Carpentier-Gunboat Smith, Henry Armstrong-Lew Jenkins. I put these together because there is still a...
Very good fighter, but he was caught between the light-heavyweight and heavyweight divisions. Too big to make the light-heavy limit at full...
It's like we're in different worlds on a lot of these fights and trying to bridge the gap is taking too much effort. So I think I'm going to bow...
