HOW TO: The editors of THE RING attempted in this photograph to explain the immense power of the great Stanley Ketchel, the middleweight champion who fought between 1903 and 1910. Ketchel (51-4-4) stopped all but three of his victims. “The Michigan Assassin” was only 24 when he was murdered on Oct. 15, 1910.

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