Any of you historian types know anything about this light heavyweight/heavyweight of the 1920s and 30s from Birmingham, Alabama? Apparently he had two or three draws with Maxie Rosenbloom and was an up-and-comer of some note earlier in his career. He has a losing overall record but lost 20-odd fights in his las few years before retiring. I'd like to know more about him if anyone knows anything about him.
He was ranked. Only for a wee spell, but he was a ranked fighter. He was also supposedly a really decent draw, people paid money to see his mad style, described as slapstick, some kind of crazy, though i've never found out exactly what it was about it that was funny/weird apart from that he seemed to spend half his time laughing. He came from a boxing family, and i think there were brothers or cousins, a couple of them. He went blind. Totally blind.
Thanks, and please keep it coming if anyone knows or finds more. Saw a link to a very brief newspaper story about two of his brothers fighting on a card in Alabama, so that seems to confirm that -- mentions them as brothers of the popular "Battling Bozo."
