"living the high life" His girlfriend Bridget popped up on an episode of What's My Line which is on youtube. Va-voom. Like Jack Dempsey, he...
"set the world alight" No. But he wasn't exactly nothing. He record through his first 50 fights into 1954 was 47 and 3. His losses were to the...
I might be misunderstanding this post, but if you mean Valdes had some sort of claim over LaStarza for a shot at Marciano in September of 1953,...
Fleischer explained that Valdes wasn't rated higher because of his previous three losses that year. At the time of these ratings, right after...
These two issues have some interesting bits-- In 1953 in his Nat Fleischer Says ruminations, Fleischer has something to say which might help...
I also found the August, 1955 issue of the Ring. Here are the ratings for that month: Champion--Rocky Marciano 1--Archie Moore 2--Bob...
I rummaged through the attic and found a couple of old Ring Magazines (probably originally my dad's) that have somehow survived the years. One...
What is hard to understand is how Fleischer would explain what happened to Machen? Did the ref knock him out? It is possible, I suppose,...
"under the radar" It was shown on TV on a syndicated pre-fight special hosted by boxing fan Jackie Gleason. I remember seeing it. "Nat...
Losses to Harrison and especially Edgardo Romero took him out of serious championship contention. Most of the names listed were fellows pretty...
"I think you are dismissing the Jones fight too easily." I described it as "bad" I thought that was fairly blunt, but how about awful?...
It seems to me that the whole Valdes obsession is a bit phoney. Valdes was 13-10 from 1952 to 1956, and was 11-10 against fighters with winning...
I don't think I have ever commented on this blog about Larry Holmes because I simply don't know enough about his era to judge who he should have...
On the other hand, does a man who won't fight an elimination, or can't win one, deserve to be "ranked at the top of a division for TWO years and...
The defeat to Bucceroni is not a good argument. Bucceroni was a top man, actually rated higher than Valdes at the time of the Marciano-LaStarza...
