Orlin Norris stands 5'11" with a 70 inch reach and limited power. Yet, he split a pair of SDs with 6'5" Tony Tucker, and won six straight NABF...
Tommy was the first man to get the best of Greb after Harry's 1919 campaign. Greb needed a couple tries before figuring him out. Jack came from a...
Gee, if the choice was between getting accurately portrayed posthumously in "Cinderella Man" or getting depicted as a villain after death in...
Well, nobody forced Maxie at gunpoint to conveniently contribute to Opie's eventual image of him in "Cinderella Man," by having his character...
It's actually a little surprising to me that Jack didn't exploit the advent of WW I by holding up the title until after it concluded. Looking at...
X is in a cushy place career wise, a virtually can't lose situation. When he wins, he boosts his resume, when he loses, big deal, he's 46. Go for...
Check out Duran's punch evasion in Montreal, then how a young and less than full strength Hearns got enervated and buckled by SRL's body shots in...
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Galento was recorded as weighing 224 for the foul infested 14th round knockout of Nova following his 233 for Louis. Checking his record, there are...
Over the championship distance, Gene repeats the job a past prime Corbett did with Jeff over the first 15 rounds at Coney Island.
Jimmy would have driven Sonny nuts, if Liston tried relying on his jab, or attempted a knockout. I'd have definitely advised him to go after...
Indeed, nobody has, and one of the major boxing magazines in the early 1980s credited him as having the biggest heart of all the heavyweight...
I gave Primo rounds four, five, six and nine from the currently available footage (which I just reviewed). He also took the first two minutes of...
Liston-Machen offers some critical clues. Sonny was at his peak, and Eddie was impaired with an injured right hand. Yet Machen, the same size with...
More than anybody else, I blame Paul Gallico and Budd Schulberg. "Pity the Poor Giant" and "The Harder They Fall," became the "official" history...
