Jose Urtain got the big build up late 60's early 70's till he ran into "Our Henry". On his way beating that wonderfully named German Heavyweight...
Your right. I live in Spain and boxing is dead here really. Nothing in the papers, nothing on the tele, nada. Big sports are football, basketball...
I was only joking. knew you meant Bert. Just trying to help getting the thread going:good
I disagree with your there Greg. For me it was a great performance.That he he could drag that out of himself 2 full weights above his best...
Just clicked,the 10percent of the Louis defences.:patsch
Don't know what to say to that. Heavy stuff.
Just looking at this list here and Marciano's purses pale in comparison to previous champs. Patterson liston 2 Patterson 1,434000, doesn't say...
According to the ring record book 1967 he got 293,660.30
Bert ot Henry?
Off the subect a bit but I remember watching a boxing show on tv back in the mid 80's. Jack Kid Berg was at ringside and Reg Gutteridge asked what...
Barry McGuigan vs Juan Laporte. Although McGiuigan was hurt late on in this fight i thought he put on a great show against this very underrated...
Great fighters?
That's true.
I'd go with the Tunney story. I remember reading about 10 years ago that that purse was equivalent to 48 million by todays economy(10 years...
Well your not gonna get much better than that :D
