Famous Boxers' Wives

[max baer]

Those who care, answer, those who don't, find something else to answer, is how I figure it. Obviously, you care on some level or you would not take the time to object that I wrote a letter on the subject, is how I figure it. I get it, son, you are butt-hurt from a recent reaming. . I can be sympathetic on this, if not empathic. Now let's get back to boxing and a relevant subject like "boxers' wives."

You read boxing biographies, from your letters. I figure it would be a pretty piss-poor biographer who left out all mention of a famous boxer's wife/ves. What do you think? Do you agree with that? A Jack Johnson biography without all the wives? Nah, I don't think so. Be careful where you step. I bet you wouldn't read it yourself.

Now then, I figure boxers have entered the ring in all kinds of states over their wives. Let's just say, it would be statistically unusual otherwise. I feel sure wives have caused losses for their boxer/husbands at some time.

Now let me say what you would read, what you would in fact gobble up: a book consisting of letters and interviews of famous boxers' wives. Pretend you could even stay away, son. You would be there bright & early with your monkey bells and elves' hat on to get your copy. But so would the rest of us.

Tell me of the boxers' wives past and present, O Grasshopper.

women can really f**k men up and boxers are no exception. I think it is a good topic when we consider how well women have screwed up their men outside of the ring and caused them to screw up in the ring.
that wife of iron mike was the best example. man she was so bad for him. it was all a learning curve for him and all that the nasty world threw at him made him evolve into the wise man we see today. Women can also push their men to the mighty top like fury's wife has done, he owes so much to her. she is a lovely kind woman who helped him get back to the top. so yes, wife's and girlfriends make all the difference.

[Slugfester]

Rocky's wife knew how to weaponize their kids.

[kara]

Best solution is to get the State out of marriage all together. Let it be a private religious event only.

Any two people should then be allowed to legally (State scantioned) incorporate themselves under their own contract agreement.

Not only is this a way to insure a fair relationship, but by taking the word 'marriage' out of the picture you instantly solve the whole damn gay/transgender marriage problem. Everyone gets a civil union. No one, as far as the State is concerned, is married.

Never understood how a State was allowed to involve itself with something called Holly matrimony to begin with. This has to offend the establishment clause at some level.

No state recognized marriages, only civil unions, between any two people (or even more maybe; might as well take care of the Mormom problem as well).

Solves a bunch of cultural disputes and keeps government away from what is actually a religious event.

Oh! and every "marriage" then has a pre-nub with no one getting offended.

In some states they try to do a common law marriage if the person lives at your place for a set amount of time.

[Willow The Wisp]

- - Banal topic. Only the puerile care.

Hahaha What a card.

[QueensburyRules]

In some states they try to do a common law marriage if the person lives at your place for a set amount of time.

- - Common law marriage in Texas was enforced in any court action brought by one of the parties. A year of living together was the qualifier, but since I don't have to worry about that anymore, and it's been a while, so don't know if that is enforced anymore.

[Anthony342]

Why bring us down with sad stories? How about nicest hottest boxers' wives?

[Slugfester]

Why bring us down with sad stories? How about nicest hottest boxers' wives?

All right then,

[Willow The Wisp]

At just before 7:30 a.m. on April 17, 1860, American boxer John C. Heenan stepped into the ring to fight for the world championship. Heenan’s opponent was the mythic British champion Tom Sayers.
This would be the greatest sporting event of the 19th century.
Much of the world, including William Makepeace Thackeray (who attended), Charles ****ens (who at the last minute gave his ticket away), Nathaniel Hawthorne (“You cannot imagine the interest that is felt in the battle,” he wrote to his son), Browning (Robert and Elizabeth Barrett), and Mark Twain (who speaks of both men in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court), was so obsessed about the contest that one of Abraham Lincoln’s aides informed him that talk of the fight “eclipsed” the ********ic National Convention in Charleston, S.C.
Heenan was married to one Adah Isaacs Menken, a famous stage actress and poet of the age, who was a notoriously unfaithful wife while her husband was traveling. The pair were divorced in 1862 by an Indiana court, whereupon Heenan happily remarried.

[Slugfester]

Tunney seems to have gotten it right!

[Willow The Wisp]

Tunney seems to have gotten it right!

Thats for sure! Gotta hand it to Tunney; he got just about everything right.