"The greatest fight ever seen in Pittsburgh" This fights never mentioned anymore and the ghosts of a once great fight town are grumbling. So enoughs enough!! http://news.google.com/newspapers?i...pg=3939,688601&dq=kreiger+oscar+rankins&hl=en
Good fly in Bat! In the decades hence Nat Fleischer would see to it his readership would have this epic battle recalled in the Ring Magazine. An excellent account is linked below. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Oct 23, 1936 http://news.google.com/newspapers?i...IBAJ&pg=4672,3934621&dq=krieger+rankins&hl=en
Amazing!! This fight was still being honored in freekin 1981!! Nothing Can Match Krieger-Rankins brawl Pittsburgh Press - Nov 4, 1981 http://news.google.com/newspapers?i...IBAJ&pg=4324,2266906&dq=krieger+rankins&hl=en
S, as a youngster my dad would tell me about the tough Solly Krieger who could hit hard as a middleweight , ducked no one and was in a war with the toughest middleweights of the great era of 160 pounders in the 1930s...Someone should write of the great MWs of the 1930s from the USA, France and Britain...
