What do you mean by 'actual boxer'? Style wise?
And by the way, Dempsey cherry picked. He knew Wills, Norfolk & company were tougher and that they wouldn't stack up enough money to worth the...
Read my following post. I'm a Murderer's Row fan, man. I'm no fan of cherry pickers either.
No way. Who did it beat?
'So what you are saying to me , " I am touchy about Jack Dempsey " cause he is dead, but the ESB posters who NEVER rest tearing his legacy down...
As I said 'claim'. Never questioned their ability or their worth. They were matched tougher & under worse circumstances hence the 'dirtier'...
Have you seen the thirty minutes long version on Leonard-Tendler I? The first round of Mclarnin-Leonard shows a little of the old Benny too.
Not that far off for me. You see him doing some crazy stuff against Canzoneri. Could've taken that fight for all I know.
Sure made a mess of him. :!:
Exactly. Ike was too good a finisher too. If (or better, 'when') he manages to hurt Pryor like Arguello did, I don't think he ever lets him off...
Maybe it was a superstition.
Thanks SB. That kinda covers good part of the period I was interested in. Mid teenies to the mid 20s. :patsch That's right. Everybody knows...
Yeah, and that's what bugged me. You hear of at least one or two top black fighters in most of the divisions of time, yet I didn't know of one in...
Thanks Vic. Pretty handsome record, he has. And he did fight some top white contenders. I'll look it up. I was just trying to measure how wide...
Thanks a lot, guys. It's just crazy that in the prior decades you had Blackburn, Gans, Holly, then in the 20s, among dozens of great lightweights...
