Just for comparison, the official scorecards. Johnson was ahead after 4 rounds, but the knockdown in the 5th made it close. After that it was...
The "findagrave" website also says he died in 1984 but, again, it's not clear what their evidence is. It doesn't help that Sheppard's real name...
It doesn't matter what page it's on. As I said, it's flat-out contradicted by multiple ringside reports. This is why it's a mistake to put too...
If that's true then it's at odds with every contemporary account of the fight. Even the referee, whose eventual scorecard strongly favoured...
Some writers certainly scored it for Valdes. Peter Wilson of the Daily Mirror for one. I think the majority view was that Moore shaded it.
He didn't have much trouble with Valdes in their first meeting, but that was before Valdes became a contender, and he was in the middle of a...
It was in 1963 that the WBA announced that four-rope rings should be the standard, but I think it took several more years for the various...
Johnson reportedly had a recurring back problem which stemmed from an injury he'd suffered passing ammunition in the navy. It was bad enough that...
A challenge! Unfortunately, it wasn't till 1953 that the Ring started releasing their ratings to the press at the end of each month, so they're...
Ali and Liston seem to have become almost friendly towards the end of Liston's life. Certainly Ali visited him in his dressing room before the...
Walcott may have been slightly older than usually stated - the 1915 New Jersey state census says he was born in May 1913. Even so, it means he...
Yes - Machen didn't really deserve a title shot at that point, but with Ali, Liston, Williams, Patterson, Chuvalo and Jones all eliminated for one...
What seems to have happened is that, after Price and Clay won the heavyweight and light-heavyweight trials respectively, there remained the...
Whatever you think about how this fight would have come out, Patterson himself doesn't seem to have been keen to put it to the test. March 1964,...
Yes, you can't rely on the censuses to have the details exactly right. We see this in the fact that Sonny's elder brother Curtis is listed as 6...
