Shouldnt you credit that ****ty historian Mike Casey with this, since you cut and pasted it from his article? LOL. Funny you put so much faith...
How does it shift it? I dont think Brennan was a better fighter than Gibbons. I think he was arguably a better HW than both of them. I dont even...
Also rans: Weinert: In his last fight before Miske he had been knocked down hard and beaten brutally by Greb. Stopped in his next fight in 3....
Held on for dear life my ass. Go back and read the reports. Papke came on strong in the last half of the fight. William Slattery writing for the...
He weighed over the limit in all of his wins against those guys in the top category except for Burley, who was still a WW at that point but...
I dont agree that either put up a better effort against Dempsey than Brennan, thats all that matters. "Better" is a subjective term. Better how?...
I think Wills would be his toughest match. Wills had a style, particularly later in his career, to muffle Frazier's aggression, tying him up on...
Some of the black fighters of the 40s are being ridiculously overrated here. Chase? Lytell? Marshall is a stretch, he was a good fighter but when...
Yeah and given that film was a limited commodity due to the interstate ban, radio was in its infancy, there was no tv, and Dempsey spent most of...
I dont know why. Especially against a guy who didnt outweigh him Burns would have been a tough proposition. He was a very good little fighter....
I dont know. I dont recall that. The first fight would have been the one to dedicate to Johnson because he constantly drew comparisons to himself...
Again, you have to take into account an opponent when judging a performance. Dempsey damn well better have looked great against an aged, inactive,...
Levinsky did not beat Greb. I think he was a clever, talented fighter but his reign is marred by his hiding behind the ND rule. This extended...
I think youre thinking of the first fight where Bundini kept shouting "ghost in the house" from ringside, speaking of Jack Johnson, and alluded to...
In researching my book about the aftermath of the MW division after Ketchel died you come to realize something. What Ketchel did was really quite...
