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Originally Posted by mcvey
Childs, Klondike, or Martin would seem to have been as least as qualified as Corbett in 1900, but of course they lacked one crucial qualification.
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at the time of the Corbett-Jeffries fight, Martin was 18 and his only major fight had been a ko loss to Armstrong.
Klondike? Hardly a top man.
Childs--ko losses to Choynski and the middleweight Dan Creedan, and a loss to Byers. And he was basically a super-middleweight. If Jeff had fought him, Jeff would probably be criticized for ducking a former champion who was a real heavy to fight a "little man"