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Minnesota's All-Time Best Heavyweights
Posted: 20 Mar 2009, 01:54
by fistic mystic
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!
http://fisticmystic.wordpress.com/2009/ ... vyweights/
Re: Minnesota's All-Time Best Heavyweights
Posted: 20 Mar 2009, 06:44
by John Galt
Re: Minnesota's All-Time Best Heavyweights
Posted: 20 Mar 2009, 08:24
by The Great John L
Nice list and nice to see Killen acknowledged.
Re: Minnesota's All-Time Best Heavyweights
Posted: 20 Mar 2009, 15:46
by Chuck1052
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.
- Chuck Johnston
Re: Minnesota's All-Time Best Heavyweights
Posted: 20 Mar 2009, 16:48
by harrygreb
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
Posted: 20 Mar 2009, 20:38
by Seamus
Tommy Gibbons, Mike Gibbons, Mike O'Dowd, Del Flanagan, Glenn Flanagan, Jock Malone, Billy Miske and Jimmy Delaney were all born in St Paul.
Re: Minnesota's All-Time Best Heavyweights
Posted: 21 Mar 2009, 02:27
by fistic mystic
And many more as well. St Paul is a city with a great boxing history.
Re: Minnesota's All-Time Best Heavyweights
Posted: 21 Mar 2009, 14:16
by dempseyfire
Good list. Wouldn't put Abell above Rod Bobick though.
Re: Minnesota's All-Time Best Heavyweights
Posted: 11 Apr 2009, 17:35
by Archie Moore
What about Chuck Gardner who once fought Earnie Shavers?
Re: Minnesota's All-Time Best Heavyweights
Posted: 11 Apr 2009, 18:13
by kikibalt
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