Im not high on Sharkey either but at least he didnt try to win every major fight he was in on a foul... if they hadnt fixed it for him in advance.
You dont judge one fight based on what someone may or may not have done in his entire career. If a left hook KOd him then why was he crawling...
The art of low blows more like it...
That may be but at the time the only one who was a champ was Dempsey and it wasnt just THAT he lost, it was how he lost. In all three of those...
griffith was not unbeatable.
I doubt Mike was jealous of Tommy's punch. Mike could punch pretty darn good himself but didnt have a killer instinct. He didnt like to hurt...
I have the whole Gibbons-Bloomfield fight and its a wonderful film. Really shows Gibbons famed use to the left hook to the liver. He often stopped...
Because he lost the three most important fights of his career. Against Greb as a title eliminator to Dempsey in 1922 losing almost every round....
Yes, I have it. Its the best film of a boxing match of the first 25-30 years of the 20th century in both quality and exhibition of skill. In fact...
During WW1 Gibbons wrote a manual illustrating how soldiers could use boxing techniques in bayonet training and bayonet combat. I have footage of...
The guy at the Harry Greb website got that quote from a magazine article written years ago. It was attributed to Greb in the article but like I...
Gibbons is on my list of books to write. He is one of my favorite fighters. I agree with Slakka though. As much as I like him it would be a very a...
That quote has been misattributed to Greb. It was actually Augie Ratner who said that but I cant remember now if he said about Gibbons or Greb. I...
Excellent matchup if they weighed the same.
Im still plugging away. Its not that your inquiries have fallen on deaf ears its just that every time I say Im getting close the end seems to get...
