Satterfield has been mentioned. Yes, I can see him handling Carnera off his performance against Valdes. I would favor Archie Moore. Off the...
comparing the resumes of Baker and Hamas is interesting. Raises the whole issue of quantity versus quality. Baker defeated more faded or fringe...
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On fighting brothers, I think Jack Johnson defeated both Jack and Jim Jeffries.
Jackson--just watched him against Charley Norkus. Jackson shows a lot more than these two. He has a good jab, holds his hands high enough to...
And if we go to the 1955 to 1960 era, we find Moore and Robinson the champions, both of whom began their careers before WW2. And Joe Brown began...
You make some valid points. "White Americans defeated Schmeling. Baer defeated Schmeling." This is valid but begs the issue of what wasn't...
"Joe Louis losing to Max Schmeling disproves that theory completely" I said the "American color line"--Max Schmeling was not American. It was...
Which films from the 1950's between men who were rated in the top three contenders at the time look like this? Would you give an example? In...
It might have in Europe, but I don't see much evidence it did in the United States. The top men of the late 1940's were Louis, Charles, Walcott,...
I think Schmeling would beat him. A solider and smarter boxer and I think Quarry walks into a lot of rights. Sharkey at his best would be a...
I certainly agree and have posted that Hamas doesn't look like anything special, which was the point of bringing up this film. That said,...
I have seen a lot of movies with Cagney or Tracy, and neither ever did as good a job of looking unconscious as they were falling as Sharkey did in...
If we are not talking about a peak Tunney, but the Tunney who would have been in the real world, he would have been aging fast in the early...
Well, Gains' height is given by boxrec as 6' 2 1/2" His weights from 1931 to 1933 from fightsrec in fights against Phil Scott--206 Jack...
