Like I said before, I and a lot of other people, have done a lot of research on this and even talked to a lot of old time historians and...
Here's what Monte Cox wrote: There has always been a great amount of suspicion over this bout. The first book ever written about Jack Dempsey was...
There have been a lot of ringside reports on many fights that indicated they were on the level and they weren't. If these boxing people were a...
I agree with most BUT Flynn was on his way out at the time. Flynn only won 7 of his last 28 bouts before he fought Dempsey, so he wasn't even...
Your 100% right, Schmeling did not have Dempsey's iron jaw. Schmeling was stopped twice before the Daniels bout and twice after. Look the only...
Thanks, I was also sitting with Joe Dwyer, who is a newly elected President of the NBFA. He offered me a position as a supervisor, so maybe I'll...
Agreed, BUT Flynn was not a proven puncher and Dempsey had a proven chin.
I agree BUT the evidence is that he did. By the way, I went to the Boxing Writers Awards dinner last night in New York. Manny Pacquiao, Joe...
There have been countless amount of fights that were fixed back then and they were never known either. I have talked to a lot of all time boxing...
I LOVED that movie too and we are dating ourselves by admitting so. I think Dempsey wasn't telling the hold story when it came to the Flynn bout....
Back at that time, Records were not as important as it is today. Losing a bout here and their wouldn't hurt a career like it does today. The only...
You make some good points BUT you and I know there have been a lot of fixed fights that were never solved. Dempsey was a BIG name in the early...
I actually have a glove from his bout with Kid McCoy on January 10, 1899.
In the 1st ratings by Ring in Feb. 1925 they rated 7 Black fighters, who were they?
