Bratton was slick and flashy but he didnt have that extra something to be elite. Man did Gavilan ever give him a beating in their third fight....
Or Carpentier...
Terrible terrible terrible terrible
Leonard, bigger and better in every way.
Greb didnt say that about Gibbons, Augie Ratner did. My pick is Gibbons. G man beat exactly one good fighter and that guy had his own...
Ive heard this rumor years ago but i believe its more rumor than a known fact.
Casey is a hack. I cant stand his writings and i gave up on boxing dot com a long time ago. This is just rehash of a ****ty article zale wrote for...
My knee jerk reaction would be to side with Lamotta but in researching my book on Ketchel's death and years of the mw division between his death...
You have to study anything if you want to understand it. If you watch boxing matches whether its jack johnson or ali or tyson like they are...
There is no such thing as a special version. But if those films are poor quality imagewise and transferred at the incorrect speed then you get...
I could see this going the way of the Papke fights. Close, vicious, and split.
No, a person who "just becomes interested in the game" isnt a historian and obviously doesnt have enough information to suddenly be writing...
You could contact them and see if they would sell you copy. I used to have one years ago but I dont anymore.
If you are saying this and standing behind it then I have to question the quality of YOUR film not the quality of existing films on these guys...
I think there are plenty of fighters who look great on silent film. Mike Gibbons, Mike ODowd, Jeff Smith, Mickey Walker, Joe Gans, Jimmy Wilde,...
