"The facts are that Willard was the champion" How could Wills have become champion when the champions never defended against him? "premature to...
The OP makes a good case. Liston has a good resume. The one comment I take issue with is the description of Folley, Machen, and Williams as...
Fair enough for the most part but "I won't say pedestrian because I'll have every Dempsey anti on my case" This might not always be about...
Just on the anti-Wills spin Time Magazine on 4-7-1924 quoted Tex Rickard--"Wills agrees to fight any heavyweight I select, leading up to a match...
Well, Burt I didn't have to be a mind-reader. There aren't many heavyweights with 65 knockouts.
Tommy Gomez?
I think it was that because of his age, Patterson could not be matched in a fight scheduled for more than 8 rounds. Not certain, though.
"more action was taken against Wills in his fights than against Dempsey" One question I would ask about this-- Dempsey had the vast majority of...
You remember Bob Steele and know that I remember him! Nobody could handle Battling Bob in his prime.
This is a much better summation of my basic point of view than I could write myself, so I just second this.
Some of us wouldn't find this at all surprising, nor consider Harry Wills "pedestrian"
*I just have a question I am curious about and perhaps you know. When Moore defended against Guilio Rinaldi in 1961, was this recognized as a...
But the big money as champion is going to be fighting the top white challengers like Fulton, Dempsey, Firpo, and perhaps Gibbons. I doubt it if...
Where was the big money?
And this proves?
