Yes, that is Mickey Walker, Harry Greb and Jimmy DeForest. I knew Mickey pretty well and I also have a lot of material from Jimmy DeForest, who...
World Champions who lost there professional debut: Alexis Arguello, Bruno Arcari, Henry Armstrong, Rodolfo Blanco, Jack Britton, Joe Brown, Victor...
Joe Bugner won the World Boxing Federation Heavyweight Title on July 4, 1998 when he stopped James Smith in the 2nd round. Bugner was 48 years and...
Apologies accepted with Open Arms.
Bob Fitzsimmons was 40 years 5 months 30 days old when he won the Light Heavyweight Championship back in 1903.
I thank you both. I would LOVE to do more on this site BUT I have a pretty busy schedule. I am the President & Historian of both the New Jersey...
I'll check it out later, as my 2 year old granddaughter just cam ehere and she wants to go swimming.
He made money by just showing up at functions, or even refereeing bouts. As far as Louis goes, yes he did the box the best, and I rate him #2...
Your 100% correct, BUT I can't tell you much more. Several people told me the same thing and it did, according to them, come from Dempsey. How...
I agree BUT the reason why he didn't was that Richard and Kearns made the money for him. Without them, he most likely would have fought for a lot...
So he fought guys like Paycheck and Roper instead. As far as old timers go, we are both getting up there are selves. I knew most of the boxig...
Your right BUT what took him so long to fight them. I say it was the people that didn't want to see 2 Black men box for the Heavyweight Title, not...
Like I stated before, there many articles right after bouts that didn't sayanything about a fix, then years later they found out the truth...
When he was the Champion, he only boxed his good friend John Henry Lewis, because Lewis needed a pay day, and it was his last fight. After 10...
I agree BUT Dempsey wasn't a legend when the stories came out. In fact, some of them hated Dempsey because he didn't serve our country in the War.
