When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. ~ Barbara Bloom By the time Sonny Liston became the...
William Faulkner once said “the past is not dead, it isn’t even past. Jack Chase might have added that it is especially so when you drink...
Six thousand fans were on their feet at the Legion Stadium in Hollywood on April 24th 1942 watching Jack Chase trying to tame Costello Cruz. Cruz...
On Christmas Eve 1936, a 6’0 Olympic bronze medalist arrived in Denver to test the mettle of “Young Joe Louis and his puffed-up record. His name...
Isaiah Chase was finally released from the Colorado State Penitentiary on a cold December day in 1935. It is unknown whether Nancy Walters had the money...
Isaiah Chase’s birthday was only three weeks away when a white gentleman knocked on the door of 3360 Delgany Street in Denver, Colorado. It was January...
[The Jew] has made a marvelous fight in this world, in all the ages; and had done it with his hands tied behind him… All things...
Fortune favors the brave.~ Virgil Henny Youngman, “The King of the One-Liners,” also happened to be a serious boxing fan. He’s cracked his last joke, though...
Blue-collar hero Kelly Pavlik is the kind of man who prefers the hard way. He takes the stairs. Over the past few years he has trudged...
Nazeem Richardson believes that Shane Mosley is a problem. “Shane will fight anybody,” he said, “and that’s not good business. I’m firmly convinced that you could...