"Because nobody is above the tax code" It certainly is odd if all your income is donated to the government war effort to then be charged heavy...
I remember an article by Nat Fleischer in Ring in the late fifties profiling Robinson, and he made the point that in Harlem, where they knew...
"if Wills' opposition during 1919/26 was awesome." An impossible standard. Awesome opposition wasn't there. He couldn't get a fight with...
My take would be that neither Dempsey nor Wills had really impressive resumes after 1919. Wills because he couldn't compile one against the men...
some reactions to comments "1919 Langford W 8--Langford was 37" Or perhaps 36, but in fairness Langford was younger than Willard. "1922...
Well, let's compare them year by year 1919-Dempsey destroys Willard Wills beats Langford, Jeannette, Clark, John Lester Johnson Dempsey's...
Valdes Valdes was 6' 3" or so and about 207-215 most of the time. Louis was 6' 2" and 213 for Marciano. Bob Baker was 6' 2" and 210 and...
I disagree with you about Valdes. He had four fights with Moore, Johnson, and Satterfield, all smaller than Marciano, and went 0-4. I just...
"Louis had no business being in the ring" He was coming off 8 straight wins, and looking at the end of the year ratings for 1951 from the Feb...
"a bona fide lightheavy in Charles" So what. This is just the old size thing through the back door. Charles was the heavyweight champion, was...
"Marciano traveled ONCE to fight outside the eastern US seaboard" Marciano also traveled to Chicago, and fought twice in Philadelphia, but ten...
"Heavyweights are more widely recruited" Here is a list from the 1952 Ring rankings of rated and Class A & B fighters--top 100--from outside the...
You are in your seventies? I wouldn't have guessed that. *I am just not interested in head-to-head matchups because they have become...
"The more I think of this match up" This is what is known as a fantasy. Thankfully, when I was a young fellow, mine ran in more interesting...
Wlad never beat the next best heavyweight out there. Might not be any fault of his own, but he hasn't done it. He compares more to Dempsey not...
