Wheelchair Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 (edited) Ok, post your questions in here. The rules are simple. 1. The correct answer must be confirmed by the original question poser BEFORE the next question can be posted. 2. If the member who guesses the correct answer does not want to post a question of their own, they must state that fact in the thread. The member may nominate a person on his behalf, or if not, the poser of the original question may post another. 3. Coins may be won for correct answers but only for hard questions and at a moderator's or admin's discretion. A 100 coin limit will remain in force at all times. Ok, here's one to start you off......... Fairly easy this, which fight was the first to gross a $1million gate? Edited January 10, 2014 by the_budweiser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamasadlittleboy Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Dempsey v Carpentier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheelchair Posted October 6, 2010 Author Share Posted October 6, 2010 Indeed, well done. Your turn..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamasadlittleboy Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Who was the first reigning Light Heavyweight champion to challenge the linear Heavyweight champion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheelchair Posted October 6, 2010 Author Share Posted October 6, 2010 Michael Spinks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamasadlittleboy Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Nope not Spinks, he was the first to win, not the first to challenge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheelchair Posted October 6, 2010 Author Share Posted October 6, 2010 Whoops! It was Jack Root. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamasadlittleboy Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Not the one I have (Root lost to Gardener so wasn't the reigning champion) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheelchair Posted October 6, 2010 Author Share Posted October 6, 2010 Hmm... Georges Carpentier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamasadlittleboy Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheelchair Posted October 6, 2010 Author Share Posted October 6, 2010 Ok, here's one...... What caused the postponement of the second Ali-Liston fight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshDevilRob Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Ali had a hernia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamasadlittleboy Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 The promoter didn't have a license to promote at the original venue, it's also why it moved to a much smaller stadia and become infamous as the smallest crowd for a world heavyweight title fight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheelchair Posted October 6, 2010 Author Share Posted October 6, 2010 Ali had a hernia? Correct! Your go.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshDevilRob Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Which Heavyweight Champion lost his crown by knock-out and was due too get married the next day but his proposed wife Edna Jones committed suicide 3 hours before the ceremony? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheelchair Posted October 6, 2010 Author Share Posted October 6, 2010 I have absolutely no idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamasadlittleboy Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Rob you realise the only link I can find on google links back to you on Banter lol... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshDevilRob Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Rob you realise the only link I can find on google links back to you on Banter lol... Damn, I knew you'd catch me that way. mlol/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamasadlittleboy Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 I'll let someone have a guess before I say it, but I'm amazed that I cant find it anywhere else >_ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshDevilRob Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 I'll let someone have a guess before I say it, but I'm amazed that I cant find it anywhere else >_ Cheers mate, My source is one of the books I posted in the book recommendations topic. Another clue for the others is that his fights would have been televised in black and white. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavpowell Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 I can't think of his name - it's the guy everyone says Dempsey was dodging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAZZ-MCFC Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 just found the answer also won't ruin it but i don't think many will get this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamasadlittleboy Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 ...come on someone post the answer so we can have another one lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshDevilRob Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 The answer as no one is guessing is Harry Wills :) He held the World Coloured Heavyweight Championship beating the likes of Sam McVea, Joe Jeanette and Sam Langford. He lost his title to Langford on the 11th February 1916 and was due too get married the next day but his proposed wife Edna Jones committed suicide 3 hours before the ceremony. At his peak he lost only once in 50 fights. He had 100 fights over 21 years. When people make all-time lists Dempsey gets included but fighters like Langford and Wills are ignored because they supposedly never were Heavyweight Champ. It's interesting that Wills beat 2 fighters who then went on too beat Dempsey. Willie Meehan a white fighter lost too Wills then went onto beat Dempsey twice. Infact after Wills lost to Langford and his fiance committed suicide, Wills fought and beat John Lester Johnson a month later-in Lester's next bout he gave Dempsey a sound beating. Dempsey did sign to fight Wills when Wills was 35/36 and on the decline but Dempsey's promoter/managers Kearns and Rickard pulled the plug. They even made Wills fight leading contender Luis Firpo for the right to fight Jack Dempsey and Wills won even though he'd seen better days. Harry Wills made 32 defences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAZZ-MCFC Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 me, Gav and James all knew but didn't post as to spoil it but it looks like there's only about 5 people using this thread anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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