It's a better list than you might expect. It took me a week to compile the list and write the article, and now I give my fellow boxing nerds a gift from my heart. Enjoy it!
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Minnesota's All-Time Best Heavyweights
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fistic mystic
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The Great John L
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Re: Minnesota's All-Time Best Heavyweights
Nice list and nice to see Killen acknowledged.
Re: Minnesota's All-Time Best Heavyweights
A number of people rank Mike Gibbons as the best p4p fighter to come out of Minnesota with his brother, Tommy, being no. 2 on the list.
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Re: Minnesota's All-Time Best Heavyweights
BRILLIANT STUFF. I RAISE MY GLASS TO YOU FROM HERE IN LONDON AND TO THE WONDERFUL GUYS IN YOUR LIST. GREAT READING. 
Re: Minnesota's All-Time Best Heavyweights
Tommy Gibbons, Mike Gibbons, Mike O'Dowd, Del Flanagan, Glenn Flanagan, Jock Malone, Billy Miske and Jimmy Delaney were all born in St Paul.
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fistic mystic
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Re: Minnesota's All-Time Best Heavyweights
And many more as well. St Paul is a city with a great boxing history.
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dempseyfire
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Re: Minnesota's All-Time Best Heavyweights
Good list. Wouldn't put Abell above Rod Bobick though.
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Archie Moore
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Re: Minnesota's All-Time Best Heavyweights
What about Chuck Gardner who once fought Earnie Shavers?
Re: Minnesota's All-Time Best Heavyweights
One of the best fighters to come out of Minnesota was Jackie Graves, not a heavyweight though,
I seen Graves fight and beat all time great Manuel Ortiz live in the mid-1950s.
W-82-L-11-D-2=95 fights
I seen Graves fight and beat all time great Manuel Ortiz live in the mid-1950s.
W-82-L-11-D-2=95 fights