Exactly. Some of the press scored it for Young. Others, like Milton Richman of the United Press and Bob Waters of Newsday, scored it for Ali....
Alphonse Halimi was recognised as champion by the NYSAC as well as by Britain and Europe when he lost to Caldwell. So Caldwell has a reasonable...
It certainly looks like Dempsey and Miske. Could be amateur footage - reportedly there were multiple movie cameras set up in the crowd. That...
I find that in many cases the alleged year-end ratings on Boxrec more closely resemble the ratings for the end of January the following year. For...
Eddie Machen is up there - Liston, Frazier, Patterson, Johansson, Terrell, Johnson, Folley, Williams, Valdes, Quarry and a good number of other...
Jess Willard said later that he wasn't worried about Jack Dempsey's power because he didn't believe anyone could hit harder than Jack Johnson. As...
It's not as simple as Charles deserving a title shot but being denied one. Charles was offered a shot in June 1947 but refused to sign until...
Jackie Berg? World champion, with wins against Tony Canzoneri, Kid Chocolate and Mushy Callahan, all by the age of 21.
Not as far as I can make out, no. It shouldn't change anyone's view of Stribling. What matters is that he was deservedly #1 contender and scored...
No, I think the UP reporter just got ahead of himself on that one. Although there was a lot of criticism of Schmeling's failure to defend his...
According to Mike Bruce's local paper he not only floored Frazier in the first round but won the second and was only stopped because his ribs were...
As Burns told it, he didn't originally believe he could beat Hart, but realised that Hart's weak spot was his hot-headed temperament. He...
I don't know how many fights he had, but he started as a 13 year old flyweight in 1958 so it could well have been as many as 90.
D'Amato started calling Marciano out in January 1956 - after his last fight but before anyone knew he was going to retire. Patterson had just...
Charles wasn't always consistent in his recollections of when he sparred with Liston, but the most specific reference he gave was that he was in...
