most boxing bio's aren't very good, they should be more book like and tell the story rather than just the stats. But of course there are some....
GOOD POST choklab.
don't get too analytic here about all this and other such matters, when the answer IS ALWAYS simple! the decline of boxing period, fighters...
Professor Chuck Marbry TODAY THE PROFESSOR TEACHES YOU BOXING & SIZE... Charlotte, NC- The phrase The bigger they are the harder they fall was...
I knew a fighter who made Jake look like "a _ucken alterboy," to quote his son directly. this guy's reasons however were much more...
haugan, just more skilled, creative and busier. many more entertaining fights and great opposition too.
Turpins win was huge, I don't believe all the B.S about an unmotivated or out of shape SRR. I don't think you can go 15 rnds out of shape. Theses...
one of the best I have ever read, not just your usual boxing book. But a real Human Interest Story very visual, informative and alive with...
exactly!
I tend to think of most legends as slightly overated, with the exception of true phenomenons, i.e Gans, Greb, SRR, Joe Louis and the like and the...
No chance, and just wasn't the done thing states side, (fighting the bigboys), they didn't need too, fights at good money were plenty enough...
Learn some RESPECT, and then when your finished with that have at good look at Boxing and you might learn a bit about that too! apologies for...
Zale in training... lots of stuff on this site! http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//BHC_FoxMovietone/1948/09/14/X14094801/?s=marcel+cerdan&st=0&pn=1
Yeah IF there was ever only a few hundred boxer who ever graced our rings, but as there were/are countless HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS, I'd say they got...
Pure Magic, of course fighters back then were ****... and they were **** 9 - 15 times a year as well.