It wasn't my choice to make. The NBA thought Machen and Folley should fight, and observer Joe Louis thought it was a terrible fight and both...
Well, it gets really tough after place 20 or so, as there is a whole bunch of guys who had a win or two over second-tier guys and then lost a...
Folley sure didn't. He lost by KO's to Summerlin and Young Jack Johnson in 1955, from that point on he ran up the following victories to...
Williams never fought DeJohn, you mean Miteff? Harris' fights were mostly in the fifties--he fought Baker and Pastrano in 1957, Wiliams did...
Those losses were years earlier. Cooper wasn't talked of as a contender until 1959 after he had beaten Folley and Machen had been KO'd by...
"did Brian London deserve a shot over guys like Machen and Folley?" No, but Johansson was actually at this point the leading contender and the...
You're posting about what happened in the sixties. I'm asking what happened in the late fifties when Harris was fighting top men, It makes...
Well, memory sometimes plays tricks, but I remember reading about the London fight that Patterson was going to fight the winner of the...
Okay. I have not seen a film of the Moore fight, and am only going off what I have read, and Don Dunphy making a big fuss about Pastrano...
"I don't believe Williams was poorly managed at all" Harris did about all that could be expected of him. He had about the best career he...
Harris--no, he was a decent contender, but Patterson should have had another defense that year. Frankly, I don't really understand why Machen...
"his best days long behind him" I think they were behind him by 1956. "Powell" This was one guy he didn't have size and reach on.
Holman "who you claimed was the most logical contender" The article on the internet claimed the NBA listed him as the "most outstanding"...
At the end of 1958. He was 22-3, had lost only to Neuhaus, Cooper, and Pastrano--all of whom had rated at one time or another, and was coming off...
What isn't ever explained here is why Williams was so poorly managed. It simply doesn't wash with me that just everyone was afraid of him. The...
