Is it possible to find The Ring Magazine rankings online from January 1950 to December 1952, month by month? Thanks
From what I've read over the years Charlie Weinert was considered a better than average boxer but no power puncher. At one time he was rated one...
If you read some of the outsider reports of his fight with Jack Renault, it seems like maybe Renault started slow but took the fight to Sharkey...
Wills outboxes Willard and makes him look bad. He defends the title against Fred Fulton and knocks him senseless inside four rounds. He gives Sam...
Well, what do you know? Whatshisname is wrong. Dan McCaffery (not James McCafferty) wrote his book BECAUSE he knew Burns was Canadian. So wrong...
Just came across this thread. Denver Ed Martin was a pretty fair boxer with some power and a tendency to get knocked out. His best showing was...
Newspaper accounts of the actual fight say both Johnsons fell to the canvas in the last round with Jim on top and it was most likely then that...
Maybe they were, but compared to what? Ed Dunkhorst and Yank Kenny? I have no agenda here unlike yourself. I'm stating fact based on contemporary...
Cool. Where'd it come from?
I'm thinking he would have joined the ranks of other good black heavyweights of that era who never got close to a title shot.
So, Harry Wills vs Tommy Gibbons, eh. Are we talking a specific year or with both men in their primes? Been so long since the proposal was posed...
Johnson did not fight the three best heavyweights in the world, yet defended his title against Jim Johnson who was the Leroy Jones or David Bey of...
Actually, to be fair, that would depend on when Jack Johnson's arm was injured. As for Jeffries' chances against Johnson circa 1905, contemporary...
It wouldn't have made a bit of difference. Jeffries was too big and strong and fast for Fitzsimmons. Wins over hot-and cold Ruhlin and the...
Bottom line. Johnson drew the colour line against the three best heavyweights of his era, saying it was because they couldn't put up the cash he...
