"blatant uppercuts to Sharkey's balls" I just watched the film. I can't see if those rights to the body and the left hook to the body were in...
Suzie Q--Sharkey brought a left hook up from the floor into Schmeling's balls. No one could have missed that one. Dempsey threw borderline low...
"Schmeling, Baer were both better than a 1927 Jack Dempsey" Even that Dempsey at least put Sharkey down for the count. Schmeling's only victory...
While I think Louis has one of the very best records of any champion, the beating of five champions doesn't impress me quite as much as it does...
"Lamar Clark" "Nobody had even heard of the guy" He had appeared on national TV. There had been talk before he was exposed against Bartolo...
"William Faversham Jr got Miteff a role in the movie Requiem for a Heavyweight" For one day extra pay? He sold-out cheap. But this brings up...
"greatest fistic machine ever created" "hyperbole" It might not have been in 1900 to 1905. Jeff could well have been the best heavy anyone had...
"But Dempsey should've been awarded a win in one of those fights with Tunney." I have seen this film literally hundreds of times. I think...
This is a strong bottom line argument. To be among the best you have to beat the best out there in your own era. Dempsey didn't, for one...
My take is that if rating on HISTORICAL impact only, Jeffries deserves a position in the top ten, but I wouldn't put him in the top five. Had he...
I don't know what the exact point is of making so much of the fact that the teenage Ali, with only a handful of fights, was fighting fading trial...
Senor Pepe If your point was that Miteff was selected because Ali's backers felt he was NOT that big of a threat, I agree. An outright...
I think most of thd $10,000 was paid by the TV network, not by the local promoter. If Miteff won, he would have put himself in line for a few...
Actually, there were plenty of hot young prospects who LOST in their TV debuts. Lamar Clark is a good example. Why didn't they buy off his...
nope my fellow was actually in the navy
