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Thanks Bubble! Thats high praise from you!!!
Hey JJS, ya il get to Langford, he was a great fighter and it's a pity that he was avoided so much in his era, he was an excellent fighter and if he were of another ethnicity he may have been much more widely known, I'm also going to approach the topics of Ezzard Charles, Bob Fostrer and Anorther of my own favourites in the next number of days.
Yea and also about Greb he beat up Dempsey in a sparing exhibition and I think people forget that even though he lost 3 times to Tunney all were closer then the Dempsey fights and he had over 20 pounds on Greb and was the heavyweight champion. Also a lot of people think he was cheated out of his fights with Tiger Flowers Pluse with 299 fights and winning 260 of them is i think a record not sure though also CC for taking the time.
ESPN had a GREAT article on Langford. At least I think it was Langford, I'll try to find it. It's amazing how he was a guy who walked around at like 150 pounds in real life could have been the greatest heavyweight there never was.Quote:
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Locche is one of my grandpa's favorites and has always been one of mine.
Ike Williams is another great that because of that ugly match-fixing scandal towards the end of his career in which he was completely scapegoated for by our Congress is almost completely forgotten today. One of the greatest lightweights of all time.
Also if you are not to busy if you could make a thing about Gene Tunney that would be great.
Yeah man, i'm working on a Tunney one! But theres a lot to write on him, iv got like ten books on him so il get all the nicest and what i find rarest bits!
Impressive topic donny
Thanks Mar, iv got a few comin...Anyone here heard of John Caldwell? I'm doin a piece on him after Tunney and jack "non-parraleil" Dempsey
Hitman i saw you on right now and you seem to know alot of Tunney you know another place to get some fights of his youtube used to have more but now they only have the Dempsey fight i think there might be a copyright on Tunneys fights but i am not sure.
Ummm...Tunney fights.
I've got a fair few on dvd but their copyrighted so i can't post them!
Megaupload will surely have some!
And another place you can't go wrong is asking El Gamo.
What is the name of DVD did you get the name i mean i look it up and buy it or something if you can not post them i guess i might just buy them.
Did you write those articles yourself? Very interesting to read,have a well earned CC on me bro.
Yeah I wrote them, Have three main sources, books, Video footage and least reliably my own memory
Good stuff,CC man. I'd love to see one on Locche,I have 2 of his fights-one with Fujiwara and one with Antonio Pambele Cervantes. I've never seen someone make another fighter miss so much! I'd love to his losses,I'm guessing they were because ge got outworked,he threw very few punches!
Well i'm in the same situation, iv only ever seen two or three of his fights so i am no expert on him!, but after i do Tunney, Non paraleil Dempsey and Maybe Caldwell il certainly give him a look!Quote:
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I'll do one on him i actually started it on the first page if you see but i will definetly put some thought into it and it should be done in few days.Quote:
Originally Posted by El Gamo