Shelby was ruined not by the promoter but by Kearns himself. That is another fact generally lost on history and distorted by so called historians...
So much of the above is factually inaccurate its amazing to me. In 1922 two elimination bouts were held to decide a worthy contender for Dempsey....
If Dempsey, or his promoters/managers were as confident of Dempsey's ability to defeat Wills then the fight would have happened. Its as simple as...
dempsey is full of ****. tex rickard was not the only promoter in the country by a long shot and there were several other high profile promoters...
monzon blatantly avoided Valdez for about two years before finally facing him.
Ive seen the newspaper report, I dont remember it word for word but Im pretty sure Gallico was out cold and had to have smelling accounts. I wish...
Dont forget Dempsey also slaughtered a newspaper man that sparred with him (I cant remember his name but he was famous) knocking him stone cold in...
And its asinine comments like this that show you are either biased or dont know anything about the subject you choose to troll on. Sparring means...
I dont even know how to post a clip. Its really not that great. Its shot from far away but its neat to look at. I think there is color footage of...
Ive got color home movie footage of Marciano-Moore
My understanding of his defense was that he would use a lot of leg work to hop around his opponent, bobbing up and down, in and out, when he...
Gibbons, Miske, and Brennan to name a few were all punchers that never even came close to dropping Greb. Gibbons had something like 21 knockouts...
It never happened. Walker's wife sat with Jack Kearns (people forget this little fact when the story comes to the part about Walker meeting up...
The first fight Greb won easily. The second fight Greb was ROBBED of the decision, many papers said he beat Tunney nearly as bad as he did in the...
Tunney did not win the Cleveland fight against Greb.
