I've found the story in the book, I'd forgotten about it ,he left hooked him broke his jaw and knocked him unconscious then went through his pockets.
I think it was too close to call it a robbery.
Fitz gave an exhibition withTommy Burns in Australia in1909 prior to his fight with Bill Lang. Adam Pollack has nothing on a Jeannette exhibition...
We have the referee Walcott saying Ali shouts," Get up get up",.We have cornerman Pacheco saying he shouts ,"get up you bum nobody will...
Doesn't the fact that Ali is seen motioning Liston to rise and shouting," get up get up " at least indicate he wasn't convinced Liston was hurt?
Whether there is any lasting damage remains to be seen, he was systematically beaten up and had no answer to that jab.
Jimmy Young said George had him out on his feet, "if he had sneezed I would have gone down".
That article is imo a pile of kack.If memory serves one of the 4 mentioned is Bert Whitehurst who twice went the distance with Sonny. What the...
That's not specific enough.I have two books by Pacheco,Fight Doctor which concentrates on his time with Ali and does not mention Willard, and The...
Jerry for me, Weaver was a bit ponderous .
It appears to be a recurring theme ,Houdini claims something,gets called to produce verified proof of it and fails to do so!
I find him a bit more reliable than yourself. Can you give us a source for Pacheco claiming to have seen Willards X rays?
I guess everyone with more than a passing interest in the era knows that Johnson weighed 2051/5 lbs for the Ketchel fight.
Are you saying Pacheco did not hear that quote and is lying for some reason? Papers were printing these remarks weeks after the fight.
Probably not what would he weight be on fight night 190lbs?
