Jimmy Bivins and trainer Johnny Papke goof for the camera - Jimmy was due to fight Leonard Morrow the next day and made a promise to Johnny that he would shine his shoes every day for a year if he lost to Morrow - Jimmy was no shoe shine boy This content is protected Jimmy assures Johnny that he's got Morrow licked This content is protected
The Hit Man, The Marvelous One, The Greatest, The Sugarman and The Goldenboy This content is protected
Oh yeah was just reminded it's valentines day haha!! So in the spirit of romance here's some pic's of some of our champs with their champs John L and Katherine This content is protected Harry and Mildred This content is protected The greatest with Muhammad This content is protected Hands Of Stone becomes Arms Of Love to Felicidad This content is protected Joe and Marva This content is protected Vicki consoles Jake - Damn, losing never felt so good This content is protected
This content is protected Ray Luna was a very well respected boxing man out of Los Angeles. Ray was active in Los Angeles boxing starting in the late 1940s working as a trainer/corner-man and manager for well-known Los Angeles fighters such as Art Aragon (corner man), he managed keeny Teran, Carlos Chavez and world bantamweight champion Manuel Ortiz (albeit late in their careers) et al. Ray was the trainer and manager of Ortiz at the time Ortiz fought and lost the bantamweight title to Vic Toweel in South Africa in 1950. When not busy in boxing Ray worked as a bartender. Ray and California Boxing hall of Fame President Don Fraser were very good friends when both were single man and Ray’s bartending job gave both a chance to meet the ladies, the boxing groupies of that era you could say. For you that have seen the 1952 movie, “The Ring”, you can see Ray in the dressing room scene with Art Aragon. Ray Luna died in the mid-‘80s.
The Old Master Joe Gans Gans demonstrates his reach This content is protected Gans on guard This content is protected Gans demonstrates his block and counter This content is protected Gans Parry This content is protected
More from the old master The block and uppercut This content is protected Gans knocks up the jab with an elbow and lands to the pit of the stomach This content is protected Slipping outside the jab and landing right under the heart This content is protected slipping inside the straight right and jabbing to the stomach This content is protected sparring for an opening This content is protected blocking the hook to the body and countering with a hook to the jaw This content is protected flexing his back for the camera - no homo This content is protected and just lookin fly This content is protected
The Legendary Jack Johnson - nasty scar visible on leg from horse kick resulting in compound fracture This content is protected
Young Kid Blackie This content is protected suited Kid This content is protected young Jack This content is protected Coke Is It! This content is protected Demps coming out to spar (with Big Bill Tate ahead?) This content is protected
Ready to make an entrance This content is protected Waiting for the entrance of Billy Miske This content is protected
Wonderful pictures Rocky. They make me feel I am visiting the training camps of The Old Master, Lil Arthur, and the budding Manassa Mauler !:good
Clearly,Gans had a disproportionately long humerus(upper arm bone) and high insertions and heavy development in his deltoid and tricep muscles. :think