Forced retirement due to badly damaged eyes. Both said to have been swollen nearly shut, in addition to a bad cut around one of them. Langford...
Cheers, McGrain.
I've long thought that Langford's best claim to a legitimate world champion was in the light heavyweight division myself. He received support in...
While I don't know how valid this is, here's one story on how Smith may have received the nickname as told by Murray Greig in his book "Goin' The...
LaBarba was given a chapter in Peter Heller's book 'In this Corner'. About a dozen pages or so of him personally discussing his amateur and pro...
Yes, the NBA used to publish quarterly rankings and made them public. Going into the 40's, they didn't use a numerical 1 to 10 ranking of the...
Willie Featherstone is and always has been a very nice guy, Fatcity. Humble, like you say, and quite soft spoken and generally a little shy. Still...
California state law had more to due with that limit rather than it being a title fight or not, as 10 round fights (to a decision...could go 12 in...
In his book 'Mean Business' Stephen Brunt writes a number of pages on McLarnin and he also described how McLarnin supposedly "battled jaundice...
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9C01E2DB1138E633A25750C2A96E9C946496D6CF That article claims it was formed in Aug of...
It was also detailed in Everett Skehan's 'Rocky Marciano: Biography of a First Son' on page 351. Anyways, for those wondering if Marciano ever...
Cheers guys.
"The toughest fellow I ever fought was from San Francisco, Freddie Apostoli. He was a really bad man. He was a great fighter. You couldn't make a...
In their Oct 9th, 1995 issue, Sports Illustrated indicates that the fight was going to be fought for the 'Daily News Belt' and a lot of the other...
The boxing and non-boxing media in America were saying things quite similiar to what you are here just before you became a fan, Dave. In the mid...
