And in 1917, the first year the match was proposed, Gibbons fought 175+ lb Battling Levinsky and Norfolk weighed 173. Clearly weight wasnt the...
It is? Im sorry I assumed you had been following this sport for longer than... since yesterday. I guess youve never seen a fighter avoid someone...
Every single film of his was illegal in the 49 states it was not filmed in. Is this another point you care to argue. They were illegally shown on...
Like Wills was going to lose to two safety first light heavyweights who spent their careers ducking black fighters. Funny. Yeah, by not fighting...
Im sorry, I thought we were discussing heavyweights. Was Wills supposed to apologize for being more dominant in the division because he was...
Should I apologize for being a successful businessman? How many full time professional boxing historians do you know? Show me one and I'll show...
Let me cut you off right there and say youve never seen a lot of things despite pretending otherwise. "the way he was going he was unsuccessful...
And Tunney also later admitted that he never had any intention of fighting Wills and that his challenge was just a publicity stunt to line himself...
Considering Gibbons ducked Norfolk for 7 yrs i doubt he would have fought the guy who easily knocked him out in two rounds.
Yeah Dempsey looked real skilled and technical getting dropped three times by firpo and coming within a whisker of losing while being called a...
Well, he was mostly blind by this point and was commenting on a guy who kicked his ass several times, so theres no accounting for bad taste......
Its funny how that decidedly average wills doesnt lose a second of any of the footage we have while dempsey was champ. Easily controlling the same...
It doesnt matter what ANYONES opinion was of the possible outcome a fight. Thats why fights are fought. Who Johnson or Langford thought would win...
Schmelings own version is that he was first induced to take up boxing after watching a film of Dempsey-Carpentier and idolizing Dempsey. So we...
Corbett and Fitz were champions a full 20+ years before Dempsey. Hell almost before Dempsey was even born. The sport was entirely different. That...
