Don't know much about him but here is a link to an article by Miles Templeton https://boxingnewsonline.net/features/yesterdays-heroes-drawing-the-brown-bombers-attention/ This is a google translation from a Finnish bio BÄRLUND, Gunnar
 (1911–1982)
 Boxer
 Gunnar Bärlund was a successful and popular ...

Obituary The Detroit News Saturday June 8, 1985 Page 7B Leroy Jeffery Former Detroit professional boxer By James L. Kerwin News Staff Writer Leroy Jeffery,s promising career as a professional boxer ended abruptly in the early 1960's when he too(k) [sic] many opponents bigger then himself. Mr Jeffery...

Boxer's Career May Be Over The Detroit News Saturday, Dec 08, 1962 Page B & 4B By PETE WALDMEIR Lightweight Leroy (Honey Boy) Jeffery's career may be ended - in Michigan at least. The 26-year old fighter will be examined by Dr Robert C, Bennett, physician for the Michigan Boxing Commission, toda...

An 1960 interview

https://www.newspapers.com/article/dail ... /35594584/

Did a search but it did not come up with a specific thread about this fighter. Fought over 200 times and against some decent fighters Record - https://boxrec.com/en/box-pro/32093 I stumbled over this Long read (33 pages) in pdf format from the The Craco Society for anyone with a bit of time and inte...

An interesting blog post about Fred in Saipan in 1945 entertaining the troops

https://www.eclecticatbest.com/2018/07/ ... li-ex.html

I posted this article on another forum years ago, the original article i cannot find online to provide a direct link Forgotten Champions: Fred Apostoli By Martin Mulcahey Seventy-two years ago today long forgotten Fred Apostoli became a world middleweight champion. The legendary Billy Conn recalled ...

Get the books by Allen (Full Bio) and Lang (Wolgast fight and SF area) but they are expensive. Here some links to free info about Nelson HIs life and battles is a autobiography from 1908 - https://ia802903.us.archive.org/7/items/lifebattlescaree00nelsrich/lifebattlescaree00nelsrich.pdf Profile - htt...

Minnesota Newspapers give some good info about O'Dowd especially his early career

https://newspapers.mnhs.org/jsp/PsSearchResults.jsp

couple of links to start with https://www.mnbhof.org/Minnesota_Boxing_Hall_of_Fame/Mike_ODowd.html There are very few people in the history of professional boxing that can boast of having the entire package when it comes to skills, guts, chin, speed, and toughness. One of the reasons Mike O'Dowd is ...

RIP, been a few veterans passing lately.

I know New York Times but it doesn’t show all the information of all of the database so are there ways I can research them to find newspapers of all bouts or most It depends, what exactly are you looking for? If you can give some info on the area(s) you are interested in then maybe we can point you...

George describes his hardest battle in 1913 - https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042373/1913-12-23/ed-1/seq-8/#date1=1789&sort=relevance&rows=20&words=Elbows+McFadden&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=6&state=&date2=1963&proxtext=elbows+mcfadden&y=0&a...

A nice article by Matt McGrain about Elbows in 1899 - https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.boxing247.com/weblog/archives/128596%3famp Some fight reports of 3 fights, two bouts with Joe Gans and Mike Twin Sullivan. http://senya13.blogspot.com/search/label/George%20McFadden?m=0 These searches may help - h...