George was headcase at this point. It wasnt a debacle because it took place. It was a debacle, as someone else mentioned, because he took it so...
Absolutely untrue. That was such a huge event that the motion pictures were marketed from South America to Russia and from India to Canada. The...
What a shocker. Someone mentions Jack Johnson and Mendtrumpza goes on one of his tired broken record rants to try to minimize Johnson's...
Just an update: I have finished going through the film backwards and forwards and it is rounds 6 thru 10. The film begins roughly 45 seconds into...
I thought Jack Londons wife was the only woman allowed to attend the fight.
The extant film reel ends at the end of the tenth round. The fighters simply return to their corners and the film ends. At this point the...
Oh my god yes, you can see in the film he was just sooo jaundiced. He also had a bad case of measles, dyptheria, whooping cough, and the mumps....
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I wanted to revisit this top and add a couple of things in light of recent events. Adam and I have discussed this via email to a degree but since...
Thats a great article. The great sportswriters who wrote about Hurley really convey a lot of the color he brought to the them. W.C. Heinz and...
Please post about other books in a different, general thread on books. Im interested in discussing Hurley and his book in this thread.
John Ochs has written a three volume set on the life of Jack Hurley, famed boxing manger who handled the likes of Billy Petrolle, Harry Kid...
Thats why you spent pages and pages of posts defending that claim to the point of lying about what other people said about it. Again, did I ever...
I never said it wasnt, but according to you so has Langford-Hague and Greb-Allentown Joe Gans (lol)...
The guy who filmed those fights was apparently an interesting character. For about 20 years starting in the 50s he would set up his 8mm camera in...
