"a record and footage of a 180-190 pound Dempsey" From the 1920's. It is entirely fantasy to take him out of that time. I guess I am not...
"Reality is a hard taskmaster" And the reality is a man only lives and fights in his own time. Any cross-era match-ups are inherently unreal...
Hard sell that this list of mainly second-tier contenders is better than the champions of the era, Louis, Walcott, and Charles, as well as the...
First--I rate Wlad in my top ten now. Second--The issue of what would have happened to Marciano at 38 is legitimate, but doesn't alter the fact...
Honestly, Nowhere. These were not the best fighters available. In fact, they were not even good fighters. Marciano's claim is not just that...
38 I think. A good point and some will give him a pass. However, a really bad knockout defeat or two would link with the earlier knockouts in...
I rate him in the top ten right now, but with his career still going, a really bad loss or two, especially given his devastating earlier losses,...
Moore was a mystery guest back in the fifties on What's My Line and was guessed by the blindfolded panel. He had to have been well known in the...
"I never see Jeffries get any." Check McVey's posts. Jeffries gets plenty of deserved criticism. *"Johnson was a bigger fight for Jeffries...
As boxing has always been an international sport, and was popular over most of the globe as far back as the twenties, I would say there have...
I don't know the whys either, my point was just that Jeffries did fight several top black heavyweights, although he rigidly drew the...
Fair enough, but did Dempsey do better? or even as well? Did Dempsey fight Wills when it mattered?
"Jeffries was more notorious for skipping black boxers than Dempsey was. Is this true? Jeffries fought several top black contenders on the way...
"carefully contrived, ballyhooed match-ups against no-hopers" In fairness, this sounds a lot like the 21st century heavyweight championship...
Just a couple of points--on baseball, he had a tryout, but was he ever signed to a contract and was he ever paid anything at all? I have never...
