Dempsey Marciano and Louis.
Dempsey Marciano and Louis.
I gotta go with Bob Fitzsimmons. Never knew what the skinny dude would come up with next. Obviously I am going on reputation. I am old, but not old enough to remember him. LOL
Formerly LuciferTheGreat
From what I've read and highlights I've seen of them; Jack Johnson & Kid Chocolate.
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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"Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it."
George Foreman
Ike Williams is another old timer I really like watching.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByQnTlv5VHw
Would love to have seen Benny Lynch, I have posted a link for some info onhim. Alas an all too familiar story for him at the end though.
Benny Lynch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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