:goodThanks for the backup U, since it's been a few decades since I read about it.
He chopped and sawed wood one winter in a Canadian logging camp, specifically to strengthen his brittle hands so they would hold up in...
There are those who made the case that Ali should have taken the decision in the FOTC. (Muhammad himself suggested this.) No dispute can be...
Bottom line is that Clark got his name in the Guinness Book of World Records for his knockout streak, a fixture in their boxing pages for decades....
The films of Sharkey I & II document both Primo's improvement and Sharkey's deterioration. (I do think Sharkey was strongly motivated in their...
Max drew well in New York, and was popular in the States before Hitler and the Nazis appropriated him for propaganda purposes, so yes, I think...
Well, of course Carnera legitimately beat Loughran, but Tunney, a former lumberjack who was known to lift weights, was bigger and stronger than...
Maybe after Jack shocked Loughran, but it still might've been a hard sell after the Heeney draw, especially with the Depression underway.
Easy enough to believe, and the fact they had such a quick immediate rematch in spite of the WBC's supposed prohibition against immediate...
From what I remember about it, Time said they were actually posing side-by-side in a studio for this shot, Stallone standing on a box, as I...
Outstanding, tremendously informed and well-articulated inaugural post Confucius! Greetings, and welcome to ESB Classic! Essentially you're...
"U S A" is a strange, surreal thing to see within the side stripes of the GOAT's trunks, considering the issues he'd later have with that government.
Good ole sage JG (:hail) had something very interesting to say to say to me about this in a thread last July. Check out these post exchanges:...
Actually, Geraldo had already made a name for himself taking SRL's best shots on national television, then sticking his chin out for more. Prior...
Hagler did it so routinely that it didn't come as a surprise when he did switch, which I think blunted the effectiveness of that tactic. He is...
