Re: The Old Timers....who are your favorites?
Joe Walcott, Harry Greb, Gene Tunney and George Dixon also come straight to mind pre 1930.
Terrible Terry McGovern had a short but intense career, that sometimes gone unnoticed.
Sammy Langford is arguably a top five all-time great.
I read up on Jem Mace, a huge influence on modern boxing. Without Mace, there would be no sport as we know it today, Mace was not just Boxing's but Sport's first global superstar.
I got a Battling Siki book at home, a pretty hard read, but the Norfolk fight sounds brutal...
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