No one was rating in 1922, so how do you know? If he was the #1 contender, he would have been in 1922, but also isn't the real issue if he...
"You watched it many times and yet you held to the faulty belief that those right uppercuts were low?" In the first place, here is what I...
Well I owned it on 8mm in the 1960's. Bought it from Blackhawk Films. I have never heard anyone at all on this board or any other board...
"If you are subjective the film of the bout exonerates Dempsey." Yes, but I'm trying to be objective. "original copies not what we see today"...
"He took his lumps for 13 rounds." Yes. Longer than Dempsey did. And I also wonder how one can be certain Wills wasn't just getting...
I just watched a very good film of the fight narrated by Marty Glickman over on you tube. I noticed something I had never noticed before. At the...
I think Illinois also, but it is still a ten round fight, and if the Wills-Sharkey fight were for ten rounds, Wills would have done the...
"which doesn't mean he would beat Sharkey if both were in their respective primes." Nope. And no one knows he wouldn't have. What we do...
Perry I agree with you that the film of the Dempsey-Sharkey fight doesn't show clear-cut evidence of fouling, but a film is only from one angle,...
Boxing and Dempsey aside, this is a very good question in sports and doesn't have a simple answer. Here are some great historical shot-putters...
But 37 is 37, check how far Ali and Louis had gone back by that age. It is an undeniable fact that Wills was old.
I think it fair to discuss how Louis did against various opponents. This discussion is far less unfair than dragging in WWII era contenders...
True enough about Columbus and Jackson, but Theodore Roosevelt has actually improved his historical standing in the polls of historians on...
I put him in the ATG class somewhere, probably between 10 and 15, but the holes in his resume drag him down compared to the fighters who fought...
Of course, and that is included and is part of the total resume.
