The second Louis-Pastor fight is much better.
I'll have to watch this fight again!
It's a rough business. You have to carefully weigh your opportunities for a big score against the likelihood of injury. Sharkey did better than 98...
An amazing show of discipline and ring savvy by Schmeling. He had a plan and stuck with it. Louis thought things were going his way for three...
The money was good, man. How else was Sharkey going to make $35,000 for one night's work during the Great Depression? Louis was a godsend for...
William, good synopsis. I'm a little stronger on this fight than you are. It's one of my very favorite fights to watch, if not the most favorite....
Great stuff!
Eddie Futch was interviewed in the '80s or '90s about fight plans in a magazine like Boxing World or World Boxing and he said that Braddock's...
Great article! Thanks.
This is the first 8mm fight I ever purchased as a kid in the '60s, and I was blown away by Joe's punching. When he landed those three left hooks,...
Yeah, the clowning might be a giveaway about his hands. He was trying to bluff his way through.
Just a quick reply without re-watching the film again. My impression was that the fight was a lot closer, like within a round or two with Braddock...
The basic premise of the tournament was flawed because the WBA presumed to take the title away from a standing champion, Muhammad Ali. Otherwise,...
I'd like to remind some of the participants in the Classic Forum that there's more to the history of boxing than what you see in the old films....
Just for the record, it was Harry Balogh, a really classy announcer during the '30s, '40s and into the very early '50s, who introduced Humphreys...
