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its amazing to think i have a friend on here who seen armstrong box live. its astonishing really. you would have seen my old trainer box...
this is what i picked up on...not posting this as an argument to anything you say..just showing where the seed of the question from me came from...
yes. and an 11th round called for after the scheduled 10....but you say every book confirms balsa as his pro debut....i must grab my home before...
and nel had only one lung !!
strange time after ketchels death...even led to darcys claim on it...from papke, klaus, clabby, mcgourty, jeff smith, darcy...and its all very...
al mccoy came at the right time....between defences and non title bouts he had something like 40 professional fights while world middleweight...
yuri gamboa and beau jack. seriously :)
still looks strange to me when i see video from sporting club fights of this time that the ref sat outside the ring a few rows into the crowd...
i tend to look at these questions from a different angle.....as the question is who 'could' beat robinson at 147 and not who could have been...
its kind of funny this one as both were middleweight champion of the world at the time depending what your viewpoint was...apostoli was new york...
imagine breaking steeles brest bone..and steele fighting on. they declared it at the time as the greatest fight ever seen at madison square...
regardless of anything else....what a gift that bit of video is to any boxing history fan
i loved watching orlando canizales
a.j. leibling who i read a lot of...and repeat read a lot of...references a lot of fights from this era in what he writes...well..1800s..pe****...
