I lived through the Machen, Folley, and Lyle careers from beginning to end and read the American boxing mags-The Ring, The Police Gazette, Boxing...
This is a good point, but I don't use terms like that for champions and top contenders myself, or at least I hope I never have, and if I...
"NY commission rules" Wasn't Wills-Firpo in New Jersey?
"Wills would have been an underdog in the betting" So was Tunney. This is exactly why there should be fights to determine who really is the...
Just on journeyman, there is a definition on Wikipedia "In boxing and mixed martial arts, a journeyman is a fighter who has adequate skill but is...
He may legitimately have feared race riots and being the cause of deaths, and the idea that "Washington" ordered him to prevent this fight could...
"Wills blew his chance" Tex Rickard didn't think so. The New York Times, January 12, 1925 "Tex Rickard ranks 90 leading boxers" "Says Wills...
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McVey I never gave it much thought, and just kind of assumed that the Greb-Walker fight was top of the bill, but, there is a poster for this...
I never said it was top of the bill. The old Ring Record Book lists it in their outstanding live gates thus: Wills-Weinert Greb-Walker...
"I do wonder whether the writers even saw the punch if they didn't mention the action of hitting on the break." On the post by Senya of the...
Very good points. There is one distinction between many of the Dempsey critics and most of the Wills critics, at least on this board. Many...
If I took your argument seriously, I would drop probably drop Dempsey about 15 places in the all-time ratings. "nobody that had even a slight...
Just on the Wills money thing, who knows, but Wills is certainly a better source for what kind of money he was being paid on the...
"Arguably Tommy Gibbons" And arguably not. But it is a moot point as Gibbons got his shot at the title. "There might be fighters we've...
