No way this fight was a fake. Compton nailed it in a post on another thread just a few days ago. Do we really need to go over it yet again?...
Dempsey's vaunted inside game wasn't so devastating against Brennan, Gibbons, and Sharkey. He wore those guys down, but it took a while. Johnson...
I'm going to change the premise a bit. I think it's 50-50 between the Johnson who fought Burns and the Dempsey who fought Willard.
I may be in the minority, but I rate Sharkey IN HIS PRIME (which would have been the late 1920s-1930, even prior to the first Carnera fight) the...
Jose Torres-Eddie Cotton Mickey Walker-Dave Shade James J Jeffries-Jim Corbett 1 Jeffries-Tom Sharkey Jake LaMotta-Laurent Dauthuille Nino...
Showstopper has a short, concise and accurate answer. I would only add that Frazier had a good defense. He held his hands up high in almost a...
Another example of obvious trolling. Maybe so obvious that I'm being sucked into the trap by even commenting on it!
Carnera doesn't snap his jab, but there's a lot of weight and muscle behind it. He hit Ernie Schaaf with it time and time again and killed him...
IBRO just notified me that Davey Armstrong, former 1976 Olympic bronze medal winner and professional with a 24-3 record, just passed away at 64....
Doubt it.
