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 ...

As everyone grows up, our education grows with us. The details and rigors deepen in parallel to the inches we add. Elementary history books, as one example, start short on words and long on pictures.

Before there were highlight reels or fight archives, there was Harry Greb, a man who rewrote the rules of boxing with pure chaos, relentless speed, and a will that even a detached retina couldn't ...

“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 ...

Harry Greb, world’s middleweight champion, is known as “The Pittsburgh Windmill.” Against him in the Detroit Arena tilted a young Quixote, one Sage. Bravely the youth attacked. Idly, effortlessly, ...