Pete Ehrmann
57 articles · Boxing.com
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?The Battle of the Bums?
By Pete Ehrmann
?If anyone plans to take this thing seriously, and this includes Antonio and the Kingfish, he ought to stay at home?? Later he boxed a bear and wrestled an octopus, but on…
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Leaping Lena Levy
By Pete Ehrmann
She was as famous in the 1930s as her kid brother Harry, a screwball heavyweight contender known as Kingfish Levinsky? Lena Krakow Levy didn?t exactly leap into eternity 61 years ago ?…
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A tale of two Harleys
By Pete Ehrmann
?We pleaded with him to stop and let us out ? alive. He only laughed at us and said, ?Have no fear??? Stanley Ketchel celebrated his 10-round victory over Billy Papke in…
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The fighter who kicked winter?s ass
By Pete Ehrmann
Tommy Roberts had just one more bout (a win) and then apparently retired. Perhaps he found boxing too tame? Here in Wisconsin winter is punching us in the face, and as usual…
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A Merry, Happy Berghausen
By Pete Ehrmann
A reporter asked if he knew Berghausen in Paris during World War I and Tunney replied, ?Oh yes, that scoundrel. He was always in the can?? As a longtime cornerman in Milwaukee…
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Greb Lite
By Pete Ehrmann
Harry Greb reincarnate he wasn?t, nor even a shirttail relative of the legendary middleweight champion? From the raves you?d think the first letter of Larry Greb?s name was a typo and the…
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An imperfect union
By Pete Ehrmann
?The (CCAC) promoters are high-hatting the local boxers to death, and we have been forced to organize for our protection?? For most of the decade known as ?The Roaring Twenties? there was…
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A Grave Interpretation
By Pete Ehrmann
The word ?nonpareil? ? ?something of unequalled excellence? ? was a nickname applied to and adopted by boxers of that more literate time? On January 18, 1895, former middleweight champion Jack Dempsey…
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10-Count for a Horrible Referee
By Pete Ehrmann
The only distinction pinned on Schiff after he took up umpiring fights in the 1920s was the title ?Southern California?s most unpopular referee?? ?Kill the umpire!? is a time-honored imprecation screamed at…
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The Devil and Mr. Nixon
By Pete Ehrmann
Ring phenom-turned-politico Orville Pitts came to terms with one, but the other proved even trickier than Dick? When Orville Pitts was elected a Milwaukee alderman in his first campaign for public office…
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Real fight or just bull?
By Pete Ehrmann
?Don?t you think it is preposterous to suggest that a man of Dempsey?s ability had to ask a fighter like me to take a dive for him?? Unlike how he left it…
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Alone and 8,000 Miles from Home
By Pete Ehrmann
?Poor little Sencio?s body is on its way home. They?ll forget about him in a week. That?s the way of the world?? These little Filipinos are fearless warriors. They fight to the…
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Homer vs. Hammer
By Pete Ehrmann
Ninety-six years ago the Midwest and Homer Smith got their first look at Jack Dempsey. It was a short one? On January 25, 1918, ninety-six years ago today, Jack Dempsey had his…
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The Puncher and The Parson
By Pete Ehrmann
Splitting George Lawler with that famous right hand punch wasn?t what Aurelio Herrera had in mind for the Milwaukee boxer. He intended to do it with a knife? ?Aurelio Herrera generally is…
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Cornelius J. O?Leary: Poet, Philosopher, Pug and Counterfeiter
By Pete Ehrmann
Con O?Leary was 16 and studying to become a priest when he saw his first fight and switched vocations on the spot? Heralded in the Milwaukee Sentinel as a ?poet, philosopher, former…
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A Sorry Exhibition (of Bigotry)
By Pete Ehrmann
Langford once joked that he would have been heavyweight champion of the world if Mother Nature had dipped him in a bucket of whitewash instead of tar? In the excitement caused by…
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Houdini Unchained!
By Pete Ehrmann
?Aw, g?wan with your act,? growled Willard to Houdini from his perch in the Orpheum?s balcony. ?I paid for my seat here?? Obviously P.D. McCartin didn?t read the Police Gazette or whatever…