"Langford . . . 'Dempsey is the greatest fighter I have ever seen'. Game set and match." To what. Did Langford see Joe Louis or anyone who came...
"How many hips did he dislocate" In boxing matches. That is interesting. And Wills is being criticized for fighting dirty. Seriously, though,...
"Being able to pick winners correctly does not mean you don't know a great fighter when you see one!" But being unable to pick winners does seem...
"if he could pick winners, he's have been a gambler. He'd have made more money." I honestly think this is a very strong point. Great fighter or...
"the greatest technical boxer ever to hold the hwt championship" Whose reputation rests on Dempsey's reputation. Come on, now. Tunney is hardly...
"Senya . . . lives as far away as possible from the US." Just stepping out of the whole debate for an instant, distance and being an outsider...
"Perhaps George Underwood was paid to write good things about Harry Wills." Possible, but why are any of these quotes above this criticism?...
Well, even if we all agreed with the idea that Carpentier is more skilled than Wills, so what. These men aren't even close in size. Carpentier's...
Just on Young Stribling, a question open to anyone. Which black fighters did Stribling fight? It would be very interesting if he did, as he was...
"not to fight and thus eliminate any of his leading rivals including Tommy Gibbons, Billy Miske, Georges Carpentier, Jim Maloney, Harry Greb,...
Why should he have to fight Brennan when he fought Firpo who KO'd Brennan. Fulton had still had only lost in recent years to Dempsey when he took...
Good post. Brennan was also KO'd by Firpo, so why is he rated ahead of Firpo. The bottom line was that Greb was the best of the little men...
dempsey1234 "I am not sure if Rickard promoted the Weinert and Floyd Johnson fights." Well, the Weinert fight was the co-feature on the Harry...
"He had to beat Sharkey" What good would that have done? Tunney was the champion then and Tunney had openly drawn the color line. "One year...
Wills beat Langford, McVea, Fulton, and Firpo. Did Greb beat those men? Did Greb do better against Norfolk than Wills did?
