Time changes everything, as Bob Wills put it. For you American fans, I notice the top football players (discounting all-around athlete Thorpe)...
Burt Thanks for your recollections and posts on this fight!
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I am not a big fan of these guys, but Carnera was the champion, after all. I wouldn't take most of the guys Lyle defeated over him, and I wonder...
"He beat small HW like King Levinsky x 2 (W20 and KO2) and Tuffy Griffiths (KO7) among others." Well, first place, Levinsky often went around...
You hit on a good point. The longer the bout, the better Baer's chances. I think Baer probably survives Lyle's early edge. His stamina...
I think this list of Schmeling failures is misleading. Most thought he actually deserved the decision in the loss to Sharkey. Most thought he...
1946-1955 Heavyweights--Louis, Walcott, Marciano Lit Heavyweights--Charles, Moore, Johnson, Maxim Middleweights--Zale, Cerdan, LaMotta,...
My take "I learned this afternoon of a little incident" So this writer apparently was not himself present. "yellow journalism" This is an...
"wary of the Effete East" San Francisco is in the east? *I am sorry if I misinterpreted you. I assumed you were speaking of Corbett. Perhaps...
"Both could have tried harder," Wills? He chased Dempsey for years, fought Firpo in an elimination, etc. I don't see blaming him at all. I...
And they didn't anticipate that sort of political pressure? It would have been more logical to feel out a governor and state legislature first...
One great thing about this board is that fans always stick up for their man. **That was a joke. Please don't take it seriously.
Fair enough. But given the fact that this fight almost immediately fell through, I am not buying into accepting this public signing at face...
Kevin Smith posted years ago that there was an escape clause in this contract. It had to be approved by Dempsey's lawyer. Smith was convinced...
