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Throwback Thursday: Joe Gans Thumps Spike Sullivan

0 comments by on 2/26/2015

Back when a color line separated the sport of boxing into what amounted to a couple of pigment-defined leagues, there were still fighters on both sides who seemed able to ferry themselves back and forth across the barrier without issue. They were more exception than rule, but they existed. One such fighter happened to also […]

Throwback Thursday: Joe Jeannette Halts Sam Langford

0 comments by on 2/19/2015

In an era where fights ended in draws or some other ambiguous fashion about as often as they ended convincingly, a fighter being able to wrangle a significant amount of stoppages or decisive victories was, in itself, impressive. Doing so against fighters that a large percentage of grown men in the sport refused to face […]

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