in his biography of Dempsey, Roger Kahn goes over the "painstaking" efforts of Hype Igoe and Benny Leonard to adjust a film in which rounds ran 2...
Perry "The KD of Tunney has been very accurately timed. He was down 14.5 seconds." Isn't the film the best timing? The film certainly does not...
"Kearns" Kearns was advising Dempsey in 1927? Whoever devised this strategy, it wasn't a good idea. Dempsey simply did nothing effective the...
As this was "The Battle of the Long Count", the use of that second timer under the slow-motion film clears up for me how long the long count was....
Harold Johnson against Willie Pastrano Harold Johnson against Eddie Machen
The heavyweight champion with the most impressive overall record. One of the three or four most important American sporting figures of the 20th...
I just read that Muhammad Ali has passed. Certainly among the top two or three American sports figures of the 20th century, and a man who...
who knows? really but I certainly think 80" or above is possible. Roger Kahn made a point (which I question) about Carpentier's reputation...
I question if the 6' 2" is correct. The old Ring Record Book listed him as 6' 4" and it was compiled by men who knew Wills well. Perhaps...
I will get my head handed to me, but I've watched this fight many times, I don't think Robinson was so far ahead when he started to really go...
Okay sorry I was too testy. Getting old, I guess. But there are too many on the board right now who are quite willing to call someone...
"You believe what you want to." I have for over seventy years. But, these boxing questions are not important questions in the big...
Quotes are quotes, but Maxim is on film commenting on the Robinson fight. The ESPN version on you tube runs 47:12 If you go to 21:40 to start you...
Greb was so remarkable that one takes this fight seriously, but I think Wills wins. Lots of little fellows have speed on the bigger guys but...
Just on the animals, I think that rhinos and hippos tend to be found in hot climates also. "These clinches will obviously sap the energy of...
