One thing to remember about the Johnson - Johnson fight is that Jack was already signed to meet Frank Moran the following month, so Battling Jim...
Charley White knocked Benny Leonard out of the ring in the 5th round and looked to be headed for a win on points until Leonard knocked him out in...
It was a very sudden turnaround. One moment he was reportedly heading for a fight with Jimmy Ellis (still a highly rated contender at the time),...
Archie Moore fought Johnson in a mandatory defence of his light-heavyweight title against a man the NBA had been demanding he face since the...
I can see why this took you 3 days to put together. Yes, everyone boxes rematches somewhere along the line. Valdes's win over Archie McBride was...
Apparently Moore thought the bout would bring a $4,000,000 gate plus $15,000,000 in TV sales. In which case Johansson's $1,000,000 purse would...
I wonder if it's the apostrophe in his name that's confusing it. I notice you get the same issue if you search for Cus D'Amato.
Dennis Andries looked pretty much done at the age of 33 after being badly beaten by Thomas Hearns for his light heavyweight title. Instead he...
It's not that beating Neuhaus was a better win than beating Charles, only that it was a better win than Baker would have been at that point. It's...
There's really no reason to believe Valdes would have got a title shot if he'd won rematches with Ezzard Charles or Bob Baker. Any more than he...
Obviously he wasn't "banned from contention". It just means Christenberry was setting aside whatever thoughts he'd ever had of complying with...
That's the theory - it's a forfeit to guarantee the fighter's appearance. If the title shot were arranged and Valdes failed to show up, he would...
No, per the printed ratings, his time as logical contender started in October 1954 and ended in July 1955 - 9 months. Or if you want to ignore...
Valdes never had a title shot "set up with the NYSAC". The NYSAC took his manager's check but made no promises, and rightly so because they were...
Whatever you think about how this fight would have gone, the claim that D'Amato kept Patterson at light-heavy until Marciano was gone is just not...
