Because of his innate toughness, amazing hand speed, lust for combat and unparaleld unworldly stamina, Harry greb today fighting with 4 weeks or...
My dad, a cab driver in NY picked up Lou Ambers and his corner men at the old MSG immediately after Lew Jenkins [bag of bones] kod Ambers for the...
Respectfully, Oh how wrong you are...Are you also barking that a Gene Tunney, a Mickey Walker, a Tommy gibbons, a Maxie Rosenbloom, a Tommy...
As posted before, I saw as a youngster Billy Graham as a prelim boy fight 4 rounders, and watched him fight ringside til the end of his career...A...
D, anyone can be "hit" as you post, but remember if you will that in about 280 of his last bouts Harry Greb was NEVER stopped EVER though he...
If a Joe Frazier one of my favorite heavyweights in the FOTC which I saw at MSG whip Ali, why wouldn't a Dempsey a better two handed fighter than...
Aside from a super defensive fighter Tommy Gibbons who was never stopped in 105 fights, Dempsey ko'd everyone he met from 1919-23...He is so...
B.S. to your statement "Dempsey was muscled around by Luis Firpo"... The truth was Dempsey from the opening bell foolishly rushed Firpo who threw...
I think because Mickey Walker as a welterweight lost his welterweight title to Pete Latzo in 1926, because he starved himself trying to get down...
Tommy Bell was tallish like Robinson, strong and hit very hard. The difference was Robinson's combination of amazing speed, power and accuracy in...
Marty Servo lost two close disputed decisions to the twenty year old Ray Robinson not yet in his prime...Servo was a terrific strong young WW at...
I saw SRR against a faded Henry Armstrong, Tommy Bell, Jimmy McDaniels, Steve Belloise, and the last bout I saw Robinson was his epic tko of Randy...
Truly, if anyone on this forum had seen the prime welterweight RayRobinson ringside as I had seen him fight, you need not have asked the question...
My earliest boxing memory was when David kod Goliath at the Coloseum...
