"He changed his mind" But the facts of the careers of Tunney and Braddock did not change. What did Morgan find out that shouldn't have been...
I just read an article which listed Braddock, Walcott, Charles, Marciano, and Johansson as picking Patterson. Ingo definitely did in the...
That is I understood klompton2 to be referring to with the word "average" He certainly wasn't referring to an average heavyweight. Anyway,...
Jordan--but haven't you seen Jordan more recently than 25 years ago. There is so much excellent film. I have often seen him since he retired....
Well, all sources I have seen credit Willard as being taller than Carnera, and Willard's height seems to have been disputed now and then. He...
"The average height was not 5' 6" nor was the average weight 138 lbs." It might well have been smaller. I have just looked up some info on...
here is the list of Dumb Dan Morgan printed in the Gettysburg Times, March 16, 1943 1-----Jim Jeffries 2-----Jim Corbett 3-----Jack Dempsey...
Neither one of us know for certain who did and didn't see this film. My point is if one see fighter A as a teenager (in film or live) and sees...
just on Dumb Dan Morgan and his expert opinion--I looked up and found his top ten in 1943 Jeffries is #1 but what interested me is #8 and #9....
some other ratings Boxing writers of America (about 1980) Marciano--#3 Johnson--#5 Jeffries--not in the five rated. Ebony poll of black...
Morgan was the first man you have named who was old enough to see Jeffries in his prime and have enough experience to make a fair evaluation....
"$200,000 is a lot of tickets" No doubt, but Fleischer and Rose were teenagers--and Odd not yet born--when this film was probably making the...
So you really don't defer to these "experts" when it comes to Johnson versus Jeffries. Seems a rather blatant double standard to ask someone else...
"the Jeffries films" How often was this film shown after its immediate release. It is interesting that a Jeffries-Sharkey vaudeville sparring...
"Fleischer, Rose, and Odd" "lived from Jeffries championship years past Marciano's championship years" "All three felt Jeffries was better....
