Few charged out the gate at Shavers this way (Ellis paid for it). Earnie didn't get stopped by single shots. While Lewis might've had the ability...
It was a complete sham, but at least it totally repudiated the earlier misjudgment of Joey Curtis. As far as I'm concerned, Dokes and Coetzee had...
Here's a web sight dedicated to Fitzie Fitzpatrick, carrying the title of his biography published earlier this year, with links to youtube footage...
When Joe took up boxing, he weighed over 240 pounds, and he was physically a powerhouse from years of back breaking labor. (He needed to lose...
Don't you mean Joey Curtis? Good question. As we know, Dokes was expending early energy when a skittish Joey Curtis prematurely robbed Weaver of...
Here's the list of 50 boxers from 50 states which uncovered Fitzie Fitzpatrick. (In the arguable case of large states like California, we...
:lol:Don't worry, my friend. You'd likely trash me on most trivia. (As a bartender, I actually avoided bets like this, and just stuck to fixing...
No problem Chris. I phrased many of my comments in the form of questions rather than assertions so that others can consider and form their own...
Fitzie Fitzpatrick was deaf, and a ranked light heavyweight contender in the 1940s. He knocked a peak Ezzard Charles on his ass, was one of only...
Does Lewis even get up from the single shots Snipes and Shavers dropped Holmes with? (Or even the first two knockdowns Tyson used to floor Larry?)...
Let me know when you do. (I only viewed it live myself, but was vividly impressed by the ending. At the time, it reminded me of the stunning...
Nat Fleischer mentioned in "50 Years at Ringside" that a glove of his old friend's stained with Willard's blood was hanging in his office at Ring...
Even if he did, no single right was ever going to take a peaking Holmes out, or else Shavers would have done it. Stopping Larry with a follow up...
