Nothing is wrong with Liston's performances. He won them all. He just didn't win them with quite the gusto he did against Williams, Harris, and...
"he fouled out to Sharkey to save himself a beating" If he wanted to save himself a beating he could have fouled out long before the 13th round,...
I thought you have been saying he was blind when discussing his fights with Wills going back to 1914.
"Who would he have met then?" Uzcudun, most likely. It could have been sold as a fight with the European champion.
Those Wills "ducks" were in 1925 and 1926 when time was obviously growing short for him getting a title shot. And, in Tunney's case, I...
One flaw in this logic is that I think Johnny Holman was a better fighter over his career than Alex Miteff.
What is obvious about top fighters is that they can often look ordinary against second-rate opposition and then get it together for tougher...
I watched what film is available on you tube of Ingo including an extensive documentary in Swedish, but which is mainly boxing film, some of which...
I think fighters tend to be underrated in their own era, so I can understand Louis being undervalued. Depending on how you look at "greatest...
Burt. Checking the best I can do, you are correct. Dempsey was voted the best fighter of the first half century, even if Al Buck seems to...
Burt You probably know more about it than I do. But what is confusing to me is that Al Buck wrote an article about this poll in the April, 1950...
"for their entire careers Dempsey was ranked above Wills" In the first place, I don't think he was at all prior to 1918 at the earliest,...
Someone thinks Greb was Mr. Clean? By the way, someone thinks Dempsey was Mr. Clean either? But seriously, "There are reasons he was not...
Well, there also might be more than one woman.
If you must know, Dempsey used a sledge hammer on Willard, but the sledge hammer has been edited out of the film, that is how the Illuminati...
