Thank you for the kind words - much appreciated.
Edward Eagan won a boxing gold medal (at light heavyweight) at the 1920 Antwerp Summer Games. 12 years later he was part of the 4-man bobsleigh...
He was not! The Olympic gold medal was the brainchild of Nat Fleischer, who first made this claim in "The Pictorial History of Boxing" from 1959...
You're responding to Kasmir's post - so I assume, you mean he's right?
Sorry... but Berlenbach never even competed in the Olympics!
"They stayed sharp and stayed in shape". Who says so? I think it's more likely, that they just went through the motions in many (of course not...
This is nostalgia overtaking common sense! Look at the 1920s, where it wasn't uncommon for boxers to fight only weeks (sometimes days) apart......
If we look at the last 100 ring fatalities before Mancini-Kim, where we know in which round the fight was terminated... then only ONE of these 100...
Why are you talking about heavyweights? We're obviously talking about boxers in general. So tell me, what prevents the average boxer today from...
Do you believe boxers from previous eras were genetically different from boxers today - in such a way, that they were better suited for long...
I can't wait for J.C. to weigh in on this!
