The Champion who literally had an iron chin. Eugene Criqui whose jaw and part of his chin were shattered in WW1 by a snipers bullet. Surgeons...
In 1918, Billy Miske was told by his doctor that he had Brights disease, a kidney related condition, and that he had five years to live, if he...
In his old age and brain damaged state after decades of hard fights, he was locked up in an attic and brutally tortured by his family members for...
In 1935 Jersey Joe Walcott had become a boxing big shot around Camden, New Jersey, although this did nothing to help his financial situation as he...
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yes. i like it. i'm a sucker for graphic novels anyway.
i have it here matt
and katie his wife in the corner for his fights
i kill threads on here. its what i do. #woeisme
which is a reminder of this... The story of Harry Haft who was a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp in WW2, surviving by winning bare-knuckle...
If Victor Perez's story ended with his boxing career, it would still have been rather notable. The Tunisian-born Jew became the youngest world...
Jack Mcauliffe, who retired as undefeated lightweight champion of the world in 1896, once had a ****** that rode his neck when he did roadwork....
i have accounts of some from like 30s/40s/50s. my old mate burt bienstock (fellow poster on here) is your man for this...you'll be amazed at what...
"I knocked on the bedroom door and a voice you associate with misty New York dockside rasped: Friend or foe? Friend, I think. Inside there...
A knock on the Hotel door. Les opens it. It is the young hotel porter, a painfully thin Negro, and he is deeply sorry suh, but there is someone...
