Boxrec is referring to the Willie Classen death. That got A LOT of press at the time. It was a huge story.
A couple amateur stars who never got the chance to make it as professionals were Lemuel Steeples and Todd Hickman. To add to the list (apologies...
Several posters make excellent points in attempting to define the start of the modern era. I think the post-modern era started in the early to...
FWIW, here are the Heavyweight rankings going into the Norton - Quarry fight. From The Ring: World Champion: Muhammad Ali 1. George Foreman 2....
I just did a few google searches looking for information on FIST and couldn't find anything. Too bad if it did indeed go out of business. As far...
I guess one positive thing you can say about the proliferation of alphabet groups is that anyone who even remotely deserves a title shot gets one...
When I saw the title of this thread, I thought it would be asking for views on how to market a fighter, and I thought "What Cayton & Jacobs did...
Let's have some fun playing "what if" with history. Let's imagine that the WBA, WBC, IBF, and WBO had existed as far back as the early part of the...
Mr. Bill, I'll bet you're thinking of Tony Anthony vs. Weaver, Nov 9, 1984. From BoxRec: Anthony ran across the ring and struck Weaver with a...
That Ron Lyle - Stan Ward fight was on prime time TV, broadcast on ABC on a Wednesday night. It was part of a Don King package called "Night of...
How hard would it be to put on a 15 round fight? Say Calzaghe didn't retire and wanted to defend his Ring 175 belt against, oh, Hopkins over 15...
The original poster apologized for calling Braddock a bum around thread #16. It looks like we're pretty much in agreement that that's the one...
Unforgiven is right - The Ring was not declaring champions in 1997. However, in an editorial prior to the Lennox Lewis - Shannon Briggs fight...
I seem to remember Sports Illustrated picking Ali. I was 13 at the time. I don't remember being positive about a pick - I was rooting for Holmes...
"Undisputed Heavyweight Champion? If it's 'undisputed' then what's all the fighting about?" - George Carlin I agree with TBooze - Tyson may...
