Murderers' Row: "Little Tiger" Wade Series

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  1. McGrain

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    Outstanding research, you can see it in every paragraph. I'm going to resist the urge to boxrec him and refresh what comes next.
     
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  2. Stonehands89

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  3. Unforgiven

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    Great series. :good
    I'd read about the Robinson-Wade debacle before, but not the unofficial set-to.
     
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  4. Ted Spoon

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    And it may be observed in Robinson's bout with Tiger Jones how he gripped onto the top rope with one hand and swung the other.

    Couple this with his penchant for denting kidneys and he'd get into all kinds of trouble with today's refs.
     
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  5. Stonehands89

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  6. Stonehands89

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  7. Stonehands89

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    Aaron "Little Tiger" Wade turned heads today with a Boxing Writers Association of America writing award in the Investigative Journalism category (first place). This isn't about me.

    Murderers' Row has been having something of a literary comeback since Harry Otty's Charley Burley biography. I'll be getting word to Wade's son (who was a pivotal source for the series) about the recognition his dad earned.
     
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  8. Chuck1052

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    I wonder if things would have been better for the likes of Aaron "Little Tiger" Wade, Eddie Booker, Charley Burley, Jack Chase, Holman Williams and Bert Lytell if they were still going strong during the 1950s, much like a fellow Murders' Row boxer, Archie Moore. Of course, Moore seemed like a natural for television with his colorful personality, not to mention the fact that he retained his tremendous ability as a fighter for such a long time.

    - Chuck Johnston
     
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  9. jdempsey85

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    Really enjoyed these articles,The great sugar ray robinson destroyed on a sidewalk wow

    Fantastic

    Keep em coming Mr Toledo
     
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  10. Stonehands89

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    They could just as easily be called the Bad Luck Brothers.

    Wade sunk into serious alcoholism, Booker went half-blind, Chase was a speed demon and his decline was rapid after '43. Lytell was blackballed. Cocoa Kid was debilitated and should not have been fighting in the second half of the 40s -he'd be wandering around NYC in a fog in the 50s.
     
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  11. Chuck1052

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    While reading about the welterweight, middleweight and light heavyweight divisions during the 1940s recently, I was struck by the fact that so many worthy contenders had trouble getting title shots in those weight divisions during the decade. Of course, the fact that the titles were frozen in all three of the mentioned weight divisions were frozen during World War II, but many worthy fighters still had trouble getting title shots after the war. Of course, the Murderers' Row fighters generally had quite a bit of trouble getting fights with the most popular boxers, let alone title shots.

    - Chuck Johnston
     
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