Ted Kid Lewis Jack Dempsey
Louis stopping Schmeling was huge, the political ramifications at the time made it the biggest fight since Johnson vs Jeffries and one of the...
Abe Attell Joe Brown
Just finished this excellent book this evening, it gave me a look at the great Murderer's Row. So many great possible champions that never got a...
Marlon Starling was a quality fighter - brains, skills and guts.
Read the The Secret Life of Freddie Mills by Michael Litchfield. Deals with the Jack the Stripper killings in the early 1960's and the author says...
Sam Langford, Sam McVea, Joe Jeannette, Harry Wills, all come to mind.
Just finished Somebody Up There Likes Me, the book Rocky wrote in 1954 and describes his life up until a few years after his retirement. It was...
Jeffries was super tough and regarded very highly by historians and other fighters. Gets remembered mainly for the Jack Johnson fight but his...
Thank you for clearing that up. Guess fake news was around in 1924. :)
Reading the January 1925 issue of The Ring and they are talking about the current champions and how they will fare in 1925. The writer (Francis...
Ideally both. Johnson led an incredible life of poverty to vast wealth to poverty again.
Just finished Randy Robert's book and thought it was ok. Have Adam Pollack's two books lined up for later in the year. Are these the best books...
Say he decided that Heeney wasn't his last fight and he continued defending against all comers, who would eventually have beaten him? My...
Reading Jeffrey Sussman's book on Barney Ross and Max Baer and he mentioned that Louis' management didn't want to risk a healthy Baer so Max...
