One thing to remember is this decision was made in May 1967. Despite his high rating and obvious ability, Frazier was still pretty green and his...
The official "tale of the tape" releases usually gave Patterson's height as 6 feet, but sometimes as only 5'11", which I'm guessing is closer to...
Like a lot of people, Charles suddenly remembered after Liston's loss to Ali that he'd never been that impressed with him. As long as Liston was...
He certainly wasn't considered finished at the time. The betting for the Tunney fight was pretty much even money and there was no shortage of...
Just on the question of how many of Greb's fights were filmed in the first place, Jimmy Jacobs famously spent years unsuccessfully searching for...
There would have been nothing wrong with this if it had just been a regular exhibition - a public sparring session with five salaried employees...
This fight came within a whisker of happening in 1960. Cancelled at the last moment when Johnson was ruled out with a cut hand.
The story about Sullivan being saved by his gameness comes from Wakely's account in 1918, immediately after Sullivan's death. Wakely was...
Supposedly it was partly in tribute to his aged appearance (his shaven head masked the fact that he started losing his hair in his 20s) but also...
Aside from everything else that's wrong with Tunney's theory, his idea that gorillas might be vulnerable to body blows because they only have 13...
Tunney actually tried to put this to the test. He wanted to promote a Gargantua v Tony Galento bout in Philadelphia which, he imagined, would...
I've read that Tunney had this prejudice against southpaws. He was co-manager of Abe Simon at one point but dumped him because he was so furious...
With hindsight, Walcott v Charles for the vacant title just seems like common sense, but it's understandable that not everyone went along with it...
In part, it's because of the law against transporting fight films between US states, which was brought in after Johnson - Jeffries and not...
Primo Carnera once lost a fight to a giant gorilla. [MEDIA]
