A very talented fighter out of the Minnesota school. Strong, quick, scientific, athletic, he unfortunately battled Bright's Disease for much of the latter part of his career, a disease which ultimately killed him. He fought damn near everyone of his era (this side of the color line) who travelled in the lightheavy and heavy divisions, Gibbons many times, Dempsey twice, Fulton twice, Greb, Levinski and Dillon multiple times, Gunboat Smith multiple times, Jim Flynn, Kid Norfolk, O'Dowd, famously KO'ing Bill Brennan in his final fight after which he died two months later. In spite of his deep, deep resume, he was only KO'd once, against Dempsey at a time when his disease was flaring up. He is an underrated, underappreciated fighter. Our old forum mate Clay Moyle wrote an excellent book on Miske, well worth searching out.
Knocked out and drew with Fulton. Given how Fulton humbled Langford this is arguably the most valuable P4P feat in the HW divisions history. Was elite while he was quite literally dying. He was not that effective at LHW. Lost his only title fight to Norfolk and he tended to lose his big fights at LHW generally.
