A propos the last line of your post, i. e., about sharing publicly after death, and the previous postings about the late Hank Kaplan's gift to...
175 Willie Pastrano 160 Mike Gibbons 147 Luis Rodriguez 135 Tony Canzoneri 126 Willie Pep Gibbons might not be obvious, but he was called "the...
My favorite Canzoneri fight is Canzoneri-McLarnin 1, the only one of the two fights filmed. Canzie is magnificent.
The criteria was entirely personal to the writer. To learn the criteria, you would have to read his article.
If anyone is interested in analyzing a more serious candidate from boxing's early days than Corbett for the all-time top-ten uppercut list...
Virgil Akins -- Tony DeMarco, Tony DeMarco, Isaac Logart, Vince Martinez. Especially important because these were title elimination fights in...
I don't know one way or the other about Fitzsimmons resembling Marciano, but I do see a resemblance to punchers like Dempsey, Ketchel, Petrolle,...
Buster Douglas after Mike Tyson. Virgil Akins after Vince Martinez. Wallace (Bud) Smith after Jimmy Carter. Jack Dempsey after Luis Firpo. Justo...
I would agree that Virgil Akins had the heaviest hands I've ever seen (on film) on a welterweight. Particularly, after he hurt an opponent he...