"as great as the Pittsburg Steelers were in the 1970's they'd likely get blown out by today's Seahawks." I agree. The problem is they would...
"anyone want to argue" Nope. Your newspaper accounts certainly made your case. **I find the thesis that Jeff improved markedly as a boxer...
I'm not much interested in trying to figure out Jeff and Chuvalo with injuries. Assuming both come into the fight in fighting trim, I think...
"Fitz could not miss him" a broken nose and cuts could conceivably have been caused by a relatively few punches. I'm seem fighters look...
"at least Jeffries had a prime Sharkey thrown in there, as well as Ruhlin" Both of whom were absolutely slaughtered by old man Fitz. What...
"great fighters do not lose to Rex Layne" All the fighters we have been talking about lost to fighters who were arguably on the same level as...
Ezzard Charles--My take is none of the 1930's champions except Joe Louis would have kept him from being champion in the 1930's. He simply looks...
I will do one strickly pre-steroid era-not in any particular order Sam Langford Harry Wills Billy Conn Archie Moore Johnny Risko Rex Layne...
"I'm not sure of poverty necessarily feeding boxing." Too much poverty probably undercuts it. Big-time sports flourish in countries in which...
A quick look at some facts. Here are the rated heavyweights from the Ring Magazine's yearly ratings for the 1930's White Americans (34)--Jack...
We just look at things differently. Moore in 1955 was coming off a great run and had just ko'd Harold Johnson, beaten Nino Valdes, and ko'd Bobo...
Okay on the Fitz-O'Brien 1904 match. I have no idea what really happened. Boxrec accepts one version, but there seems to be all kinds of other...
He did go on a tour with Jeffries and fought some set-ups, but in 1903 he beat George Gardner, the light-heavyweight champion, who was coming off...
I think I did make that point in Post #89 above. I used the American NFL football quarterbacks Peyton Manning (37) and Tom Brady (36) as...
**Just a comment about the Johnson-Jeffries fight. A few years ago I called the National Film Registry (the film of this fight had been voted...
