People say Johnson refused to face black challengers, but the truth is he signed to fight Jeanette in New York in 1912, McVey and Langford in...
There was a plan at the time for a more elaborate gravestone to be paid for by public subscription, but Fitzsimmons' widow vetoed the idea. "Bob...
I think the answer is that Christoforidis-Lesnevich had always been planned as a title fight, it just couldn't be advertised as one because it...
The surviving fragments of film are from late in Wills' career. As early as 1922 Robert Edgren was writing that he was losing or neglecting his...
Probably something to do with the fact that those 39 (not 40) fights include all the ones where he was fighting when years past his prime, and...
A bit contrived? Machen had 25 fights before he faced Johansson, why only mention the first 18? Is it because in those next 7 fights he only had...
There's a pretty obvious and fundamental difference between losing on a cut while ahead on points and the one-sided battering Miteff took against...
Also Eduardo Corletti, who was ranked 9th at the time.
You can imagine it all you like, it won't make it true. Cavicchi didn't remain unbeaten. He lost to the obscure Hans Friedrich in June 1956, and...
Why are you still claiming that Cavicchi was rated? I've explained to you that he wasn't and I know you use the Boxrec NBA ratings so I'm sure...
There's this legend that Johansson dominated every round against London until getting caught in the closing seconds. The Associated Press...
Not as many as you might think, for a fighter who was at the top of the sport for so long. Ring magazine ratings, I make it: #5 Eddie Machen #3...
As Siki told it, he had agreed to take a dive in the fourth round but when it came to it his pride just wouldn't let him do it....
Sorry, I must have missed the post which claimed that Billy Daniels going the distance with Cleveland Williams meant that he was impossible to...
Just imagine what awesome chins Lloyd Barnett, Erik Jensen, Ansell Adams, Uber Bacilieri, Hans Friedrich, Archie McBride and Brian London must...
