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[Willow The Wisp]

Why the big mad rush to establish the deserved parties in re-establishing the line? There are no solid, always followed "rules" about this, like the WBA has (you'll note what I did there), but there is Precident (Such as what guides legal decisions).

We can declare a champion...

[Willow The Wisp]

Many did, and scribes always available to print those tales. Harry Wills stating that he would finish Tunney that quickly brought to my mind the equivalence of Muhammad Ali's claim that he'd rasstled with an alligator, tussled with a whale....

[Willow The Wisp]

Great thread, great find from the N.Q. Register to post up travestyny! Salient points for balance Bronson66.
Decades spent in newspaper archives, the article seems familiar to me. Could it have been reprinted in a contemporary 1920's issue of Boxing World and Mirror of Life?...

[Willow The Wisp]

Amanda Rodrigues Gatti.....The Jury's still out.

[Willow The Wisp]

As With Johnson - Jeffries, Charles - Louis, Frazier - Ali I, Holmes - Ali and Fury - Wilder; if the un-deposed champion in recess comes back and wins, his reign continues unabated. And if he loses, his reign is ended and the interim claimant's defenses are legitimized.
Der Sieger wird immer...

[Willow The Wisp]

Great post. I take boxing aficionados where (and how) I find them, Marchegiano. If I discuss world history, engineering, classic automobiles, IT, global politics, faith constructs, earth sciences, anthropology....Baseball, football....not too difficult finding a conversation with an individual who...

[Willow The Wisp]

I dunno. Seems disrespectful to me. Whatever any poster here does to make a living, it's bound to be pretty easy compared to what these fighters do.

That's just how I see it.

[Willow The Wisp]

He was not speaking to the relationship between America and France in any sense...of course. And you know that.
He was speaking to the futility of assigning authority to a multitude of independent groups, who are historically noted for overstepping their boundaries.

It was a great...

[Willow The Wisp]

Its true.
Magazine writers would try to capture the buzz of the moment....

[Willow The Wisp]

Do not ever be offended by me March II. As my wife will tell ya, I know next to nothing. Besides.....I retired from the keyboard warrior circuit decades ago. And really, it was the Buffalo staff writer I take issue with.

Now go get your shine box!...

[Willow The Wisp]

Bullocks, as my friends in the UK would say.
Do the legwork....

[Willow The Wisp]

Washington state's Freddie Steele.
Sure, he's a Hall of Famer and the geeks do pay homage; but when invested fans rattle off their list of great Middleweight Champions he is seldom mentioned, which is a shame.
Indeed, Steele was arguably the greatest fighter-athlete ever.
Ray Arcel,...

[Willow The Wisp]

Can't restrain myself.........

1. Roberto Duran
2. Sugar Ray Leonard
3. Manny Pacquiao
4. Julio Cesar Chavez
5. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
6. Wilfredo Gomez
7. Thomas Hearns
8. Roy Jones Jr.
9. Carlos Zarate
10. Bernard Hopkins

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[Willow The Wisp]

Yes he is...

[Willow The Wisp]

Getting this thread back on track;

I made a thread about Leonard Morrow, the "California Kid" a few years back. He was one of those super hot/super cold fighters (Bob Satterfield, Jimmy Young).
He deserves another mention.
A pedestrian 30-8-1 mark....which included...