Was Boxing News an American publication?
"Ring had no control over anything" If a fight was on TV, the ratings TV used in their preview was The Ring ratings. By the way, the NBA did...
"Boxing Illustrated was older than The Ring" I thought Boxing Illustrated was founded in 1958 by Stanley Weston. The Ring goes back to 1922,...
"National Boxing Association" "they were the only ratings that mattered" The New York State Athletic Commission had a say in these things also,...
I would make Williams a solid 2-1 favorite, mainly because Harris had no power at all. Harris was quick on his feet, quicker than Williams,...
Yup. I don't know if they edited the tape to make Sharkey look bad, but his head was snapping back the whole fight from Schmeling's jabs....
After thinking quite a bit about it Schmeling in a close one, as I think he has the skill and power to handle Norton and is more likely to...
There is confusion here and I'm to blame for not making myself clear. I was not referring to Folley when he fought Liston, but the Folley...
"He had lost to the only rated opposition he had met" Well, there was only one, and Williams was I believe still a few days short of his 21st...
If memory (and it has been a lot of years) serves me, Daniels was rated at the time of the second Williams fight also, after upsetting the at that...
I think Liston had a tough time getting or keeping a license after the Ali debacle, which most thought was a dive. It took several years for him...
"only Folley, Machen and Harris were worth any value." "This is overstated." Equally true of your conclusion. Certainly Williams, Valdes,...
I don't think we can assume the opposite either. Besides everything else, Willard was aging, overweight, and had long been inactive when he...
Janitor "If Wills had been given the chance to fight Willard, how can we be sure he would not have lost." What kind of point is this? How can...
"Harry Wills was the second highest paid fighter of the era." I can't say I know for certain, but this is hard to buy. Tunney had to be paid...
