Yup. If I was given a second pick, it would be either the first or fourth Greb vs Tunney bout.
Hank Griffin has been posthumously declared white? Even the Mormon Church wouldn't attempt such a conversion.
Do you really think so? I thought Jeffries looked horrible in the training footage I have from that camp. He's no longer light on his feet, his...
I think it's highly improbable. The prime Jeffries studied wrestling extensively, even wrestling a series of competitive exhibitions with the...
"I was the great white hope, they told me. My pride got the better of my good judgement. Six years ago it would have been different. Now I guess...
"The show was in Butte, Montana, on the evening of December 19, 1903, and Jack Munroe was the man put forward to box four rounds with Jeffries....
That's easy enough to answer - Floyd Fitzsimmons owned his own area in Michigan City, Indiana.
The truth isn't as important as the perception and the ballyhoo. Munroe survived 4 rounds against the champion, a rare feat that Munroe loudly...
I think people who hard on Munroe's title shot are probably unaware of Munroe's performance against Jeffries in a non-title "challenge match" in...
I have a full copy of an NYT article from that period stating that Godfrey suffered broken ribs sparring with Dempsey and would be forced to...
Dempsey had Godfrey in camp in preparation for the Tommy Gibbons defense, not for the Firpo defense later that same year. In training for...
Willard d. Leon Spinks, KO
Well, I think the more significant thing is that Lindland would have thrown Fedor to the ground had Fedor not illegally used the ropes to stay...
It's Kid Chocolate vs Fidel Labara from 1930.
And that's what the steroids were for. Dempsey and Holyfield are two men of the same biometric size. Holyfield just needed to cheat and use...