That "honour" goes to Ezzard Charles with at least 29 knockdowns recorded against him: Logan 3 Fleeman 3 Matthews 1 Andrews 1 Holman 3 Marciano 3...
Exactly! Here is Callis' all-time P4P top-10: 1. Bob Fitzsimmons 2. Sugar Ray Robinson 3. Nonpareil Jack Dempsey 4. Sam Langford 5. Charlie...
You know… that boxing has been on the downslide for decades, because that's the case in the US. And completely ignoring that this is not true for...
"If Tracy Callis rated him tops, that was good enough for me". Sure... If you can't form your own opinion, that's the way to go.
What a terrible time that must have been! I hate to think how many boxers, who had the potential to develop into ATGs, were simply lost to these...
Definitely not Steele!
Not only could the ref urge the participants to make a real effort - many times he actually threw both boxers out, because the scam was too...
Did you watch Taylor-Persoon last Saturday? Could two boxers possibly have tried harder to win than what we saw there? If this had not been two...
OK, let's look at this from the usual American perspective! Sure, let's pretend that boxing's popularity has been on the downslide these last...
With the way pro boxing now has branched out to nearly all corners of the world since boxing's "Glory Days" (20s and 30s), I bet there must be...
This is the kind of counter hook Inoue excels in! If you look at some of his fights, you'll see him use this "get-there-first" hook against...
"Toughness", "heart" or whatever you want to call it - and how it manifests itself in the ring - is an individual thing. At all times, we've seen...
I think a tall, durable southpaw like Henry Maske would have given him all kinds of trouble.
Maybe because we have actual fight footage of Bob! Not an awful lot, and not in the best of quality - but enough to get an idea of how he looked...
If we take Wlad as he was just before losing to Purity, and beamed him back to 1930... he would arrive there with a 24-0 pro record, after going...
