I think this pretty much covers it. Just occasionally you do see his height specifically given as 6'3.5". https://ibb.co/FLkWgxTZ
Reportedly more than 80% of the ringside press scored it for Tubbs. Certainly all the reports I've seen which ventured a scorecard had him...
I think it's the 1976 episode of Wide World of Sports where Ali talked to Cosell about his predecessors as champion. The same one where he...
Not sure how you're working that out. 6-3-1 on rounds translates to 97-94 on points. An extra point for the knockdown takes it to 96-94.
People say this, but it's just not true. The fight was scored on rounds, not points, and two of three judges had Charles winning the 10th anyway,...
For a bit of added context, Fleischer's top 10 in 1943: 1. Jack Johnson 2. Jim Jeffries 3. Bob Fitzsimmons 4. John L Sullivan 5. Tom Sharkey 6....
Fitzsimmons was reportedly devastated by Riordan's death. But I think his inactivity in 1895 was at least partly because he spent a lot of his...
Fitzsimmons was arrested on a charge of manslaughter but the coroner returned a verdict of accidental death and he was exonerated. The bout was a...
This isn't exactly what you asked for, but in 1917 Grantland Rice called Bob Fitzsimmons the greatest pound for pound fighter of all time, ahead...
I think he was very much brought in as a celebrity guest referee to boost ticket sales. The advertising for the Cokes-Olguin fight had a picture...
Years after it became impossible in the US, you still got the occasional finish fight scheduled in Mexico. A notable example being Mercy Montes's...
One could throw in Tom Sharkey, who briefly claimed that his DQ win over Fitzsimmons gained him the title which Fitzsimmons had arguably won from...
Archie Moore said afterwards that it was difficult to give Foreman useful advice because Ali was constantly changing his tactics. "You'd say...
Exactly. Some of the press scored it for Young. Others, like Milton Richman of the United Press and Bob Waters of Newsday, scored it for Ali....
Alphonse Halimi was recognised as champion by the NYSAC as well as by Britain and Europe when he lost to Caldwell. So Caldwell has a reasonable...
