I know Sullivan actually fought more than half his fights with gloves, but "bare knuckle era" just seemed like the most convenient umbrella term...
But people don't (typically) get knocked out by pain,they get knocked out because blunt force trauma temporarily disrupts electrical signals in...
In a word, no. It's possible only in the strictest sense that it's possible that there is no chair under my ass right now. You've basically got...
Excellent analysis. Lee Ramage was another mover who Louis fought and he did fairly well in their first fight, such that he wanted a second...
Whether this is plausible or not (to me) depends very heavily on how deep the talent pool was in Sullivan's day and just how difficult it was in...
I'm prepared to place a full ten dollars on Mr. Jeffries - you heard correctly - to give Mr. Sullivan a thoroughgoing thrashing. Now do not...
Ali was not in his prime any time he fought Norton, but as far as I can tell Louis does literally everything better than Norton, across the board....
I don't think he hit as hard as Ruddock or Lewis but I'm quite confident he hit harder than Holyfield.
His accent is fascinating. He almost sounds Welsh. (At least to me. Maybe members from the UK will laugh their "arses" off at this.)
Holy ****, are you serious? This I gotta see...
As usual I'm impressed by your ability to quickly cite context relevant sources, but in this case I'm not quite sure how this is supposed to...
I agree with just about every word of this.
"The man had so many fixed fights it's ridiculous, if it was just one or two claims then it would be one thing but there were so many. ' What...
Cool, but before I clicked I would have bet money this was going to be the Al Ettorre knockout.
It was alike in the limited sense that one can easily conceive of motives that someone else in his place might have that would countervail his...
