Several months ago, while researching and reading newsprint on Jack Dempsey, I ran across an article on Harry Greb done by the great boxing writer of the roaring twenties and beyond Joe Williams in ...

“I was born dead, with a black eye,” the story begins. “But even that early, I must have been too stubborn to quit.” That’s the opening line of the autobiography Toy Bulldog: The Fighting Life and ...

The harder Johnny Wilson (real name Giovanni Panica) pumped punches from his batteries, the faster Harry Greb attacked. After 15 rounds of bitter battle, at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, Greb was ...

Catching up, last week's boxing match was a classic. Like the Middleweight opener, it was one sided but very exciting. In that opener top seed Sugar Ray Robinson dominated Ceferino Garcia but did have ...

Gene Tunney, former champion of the A. E. F., emerged from the smoke of a battle in Madison Square Garden holding Harry Greb’s light-heavyweight championship of the world. But the smoke had hardly ...