These records aren't correct. Valdes is 5-6-1 with 3 KO's, (he also stopped McFadden in one fight) with 2 KO'd by (Machen & Liston) Williams is...
My guess is Williams by a decision. He was a much better boxer. Galento was ultra-crude and wide open.
Thanks for posting. McCarthy didn't seem that accurate, but he certainly had an "excited" voice.
The double standard on age is interesting. I just went over to boxrec to study their top 50 heavyweight ratings (I know boxrec is not official,...
*just an aside, to no one in particular. Generally Nino Valdes' name is spelled Valdes with an s. One occasionally sees an old article which...
Some comments $250 million in 1955 is equivalent to about 3 billion today. I printed the bit about the circus because of the involvement of...
Here are excerpts from a very long article printed in Sports Illustrated on June 20, 1955. Lots of interesting Info here I think. so I thought I...
Here is what boxrec has on the Charles-Satterfield fight. From the AP "A revitalized Ezzard Charles, 189, dropped a bomb on Bob Satterfield,...
"no reason to think . . . that Valdes was going to lose the top spot." Valdes didn't have the top spot with the folks that mattered--The NBA and...
"Cockell himself wasn't lacking in embarrassing loses." "The 40-23-6 Jimmy Slade" Cockell lost badly to Slade. But Slade was highly rated in...
Neuhaus was rated #8 in the NBA rankings on July 7, 1953. Bob Satterfield was rated #4. Coley Wallace #6. Valdes KO'd Neuhaus, while Charles...
"you 'remembering' reading something means absolutely nothing" Fair enough for you. It is decisive for me. "Why would Valdez want a rematch...
You definitely have a better source for The Ring ratings. The Nevada State Journal was either just wrong or referring to some other ratings....
I remember reading a columnist who stated that Bobby Gleason was not interested in an elimination with Charles. Unless Charles is lying about...
Valdes fought Archie McBride on Saturday, February 20, 1954. He won, but very unimpressively. The Ring in their next rating dropped him to...
