Ultimately, boxing fell out of the mainstream during the watch of King and Arum. It's not a terrific legacy that the sport became a niche interest...
Dempsey described himself as an animal, a beast in the ring, yet he was the quintessential sportsman before it began, and after it was over. Duran...
I suspect many of us are looking for quick, almost immediate turnarounds, like what SRR did to Graziano. It took Marciano more time to reverse...
If you've brought up Benn and Eubank with respect to tragic outcomes, I think it's tricky to include Griff. Emile did accomplish a great deal,...
Obviously, what Dempsey did to Firpo.
Starling. Did knock out Breland to become a world champion, but I've always wondered if the memory of Charles Newell hampered him ever after, the...
As long as you don't have Reyes syndrome, an allergic reaction or other specific contraindication, that low a dose does little if any harm. I...
Nobody favoring Tyson is addressing the fact that Foreman would be continually and easily shoving Mike back and away at arm's length, putting...
I think he had Tyson's head, and therefore his number. Have a hard time seeing Mike win in a situation where every backwards step would be his....
O'Halloran was the first to stop Daniels after Terry achieved notice as a rising HW. Since Stander had beaten Jack, O'Halloran had seemingly...
Here's a link to it, scanned from the book. (I'd forgotten Jack Sharkey was also in it. Note that Dempsey is actually the tallest of the five, a...
Horrible. The news about this illness broke over a year ago. He seems to have put up a good fight to last as long as he did. Apparently, his was...
No, the famous one published in Jack's autobiography where Frazier, Dempsey, Carpentier and Tunney are standing together in the Madison Square...
The weight is deceiving. Joe had a large concentration of it below his chest and above his knees (with 27 inch thighs even when weighing below 200...
I don't think anybody here is saying he truly deserved a shot, just formulating the pretext behind his being granted one. At the time Ron...
