I have an old book, Esquire's First Sports Readers, which contains a number of sports articles which appeared in Esquire Magazine over a period of...
You usually have to be convicted of a certain crime before getting a pardon for it. Of course, former President Richard Nixon got a pardon even...
About forty years ago, I was reading a book about Jewish athletes, which certainly wasn't a first edition. For one thing, the forward or...
My late mother, an extremely well-read and highly educated woman, knew very little about boxing history or Harry Greb, but was amused when...
While looking at footage of Rocky Marciano in action, I struck by the fact that he had some very underrated, developed skills, including being...
Wladimir Klitschko gets a purse of 17 million dollars? Yet he wouldn't draw flies in the United States. If Klits gets 17 million for a bout,...
People who like to watch the Klitschko brothers and most of the other top heavyweights have to be gluttons for punishment. Give me the smaller...
Race doesn't have anything to do with it. Wladimir Klitschko has an extremely low work-rate and very little skill compared to Floyd Mayweather...
I would rather watch Floyd Mayweather Jr. or any other no-heavyweight in action than Wladimir Klitschko any day of the week. Of course, I have...
The one opponent which Jack Dempsey professed an intense personal dislike for was Carl Morris. Outside the ring, Dempsey appeared get along with...
The bout with George Foreman had to hurt Joe Frazier's standing in the long run, but I believe that Foreman was the only fighter of that era that...
I agree! It is far better to go out a little soon than a little too late. - Chuck Johnston
It has been a long time since I read Nat Fleischer's Black Dynamite series, but I remember that Fleischer pointed out Jack Johnson, Sam Langford,...
I agree. - Chuck Johnston
It is true that Jim Jeffries, like other world heavyweight champions of the era, didn't go out of his way to face black fighters. Jeffries could...
