What about boxers while growing up who knew someone who later became famous(or infamous). I'm thinking of Barney Ross who knew Jack Ruby (I think they had been in the same gang together back while growing up in Chicago back in the 1920's) As a matter of fact ,I think Barney Ross was called in as a &...

Rocky Graziano

Roy Jones jr should have fought Corrie "The Sniper" Sanders .

I was reading a book about singer Diana Ross the day. It had read that her father had been a professional boxer. His name was Bob Ross, he was over 6 feet tall and fought as a middleweight in Detroit Michigan. He was born 4. July.1920 in West Virginia and moved to Detroit in 1927. He had won the&quo...

Of the punches that Cooney had thrown in those 2 rounds,
how many were rights ?
(Cooney had a really good right, he even knocked out some opponents with it).

According to Gil Clancey (Cooney's then trainer), Cooney stuck to the original fight plan for round one (stick &move) but for round two Cooney went his usual route and tried to slug it out with Foreman (Gil Clancey also said Cooney came in too light for the fight) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

James J. Jeffries was naturally left handed but he fought in orthodox style.

it didn't happen, but
Corrie"The Sniper" Sanders was scheduled to fight Michael Moorer
for the title he had, but Sanders had broken his leg while doing roadwork and the fight was cancelled, so Moorer fought
"Big" George Forman instead

-1954- ( age 48 yrs)

Primo Carnera's wrestling career was from 1946-1962.
Bill Stern's World of Sports-MAT MASTERS (1950)

Primo Carnera as "Slygon" at begining at 1:08 of the film
(unfortanetly they had to dub his unmistakable booming voice because of his ""thick Italian accent'
-1954-

Well Primo Carnera never got a job in Hollywood again after that.
For his last film/TV role he had to go to Italy in 1959 (age 53 years)

As a matter of fact back in 1966 when Richard Malbaum was writing the screenplay for OHMSS, Primo Carnera had been first in mind for the role Blofeld's henchmen "Che Che " Primo Carnera would have been 60 years old in 1966, but he was too ill at the time for the role. (instead they got som...

So why didn't Quick Tillis fight Gerry Cooney and the winner fight Mike Weaver for his title ?
From what I remember reading it was Cooney that was rated 1 and Tillis 2
when Tillis got the shot at a title. Cooney's handlers offered 1 million dollars to him for 'stepping aside" money.

one of the strangest episodes in any Television series. BTW if you notice Primo Carnera was not even given a credit in it, that's because by the time that show was aired Primo Carnera was being "Black-Balled" by Hollywood because he had the audicity to sue the producers of THE HARDER THEY ...

He lost to Dempsey (practically) on a foul so that can be over-looked.
a "draw' should not detract from his record either.
BTW then why didnt Tunney fight Johnny Risko then ?
He was pretty good.

The 'Loose ends" of the Heavyweight Champion fights. Gene Tunney should have stuck around long enough to defend the title against Jack Sharkey. A lot of people were looking forward to that fight. What if Jack Sharkey had not been disqualified against Max Schmeling ? (Ray Arcel had once said Ja...

BTW Dennis Rappaport (of The Wacko Twins) has just published his autobiography.
anyone here read it yet ?
here is a link about it.
https://iamrappaport.com

Caractacus wrote: ↑24 Mar 2023, 13:06

that knockout punch had landed right on the temporal region.

Pete Herman (Bantamweight Champion)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Herman

Leach Cross
(Benny Leonard's byhood idol)
https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php/Leach_Cross

Benny Vulger
https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php/Benny_Valger