How good was Willie Meehan?

I would say it's impossible, unless we are talking about the 39 year old sluggish slob, beyond-shot, fat Zombie Tyson, who has no stamina & threw mainly arm-punches (thanks for being useless & teaching him that crap Fenech!) against McBride. Canto would be KO'd in round 1 by the '04 Fat Zombie Tyson, who was almost as extremely badly shot-to-****, but at least threw bombs, before his knee meniscus snapped in round 2, preventing him from getting leverage.

 

Crazy stuff has happened. David Haye was very nearly knocked out by a middleweight with only a handful of KO's to his record.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwUx_bcHaHU[/ame]

5:55

 

I'm not hating on Tyson.

If Tyson lost a 4-rounder to an out-of-shape Miguel Canto, it wouldn't wipe away all the other stuff he's done, would it ?

KO 2 Berbick, KO2 Tubbs, KO4 Holmes, KO1 Spinks ..... all those results would still stand. and lots of other good results.
It would be a horrible result to lose to a blown-up 5' flyweight, even on points over 4 rounds, but it wouldn't alter the fact that Tyson was undisputed champion of the world with a string of fine results.

Also, how could anyone NOT give Canto a lot of credit for it ? :huh
The guy never fought north of flyweight, he's taking on Tyson and winning ... how the hell can he not be awesome for that ?

 

Yeah, so would I.
It's purely hypothetical, and somewhat ridiculous.
Pachilles came up with it from somewhere though.

 

I found the original copy :

http://news.google.co.uk/newspapers...656,271044&dq=willie+meehan+jack+dillon&hl=en

 

A small report on the Meehan-Dillon fight :

http://news.google.co.uk/newspapers...92,4017365&dq=willie+meehan+jack+dillon&hl=en

 

Cool. :good

 

Nice fight description!

Meehan weighing 186lbs "danced around Dillon like a Bantam..." :scaredas:

 

Fatty Langtry, the original "fat heavyweight":

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http://www.cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/w0505-carson.html

 

Makes Meehan look slim in comparison.

 

Almost makes Garing Lane seem respectable.

 

This is the most overweight super middleweight I've ever seen:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-466VP7wk24[/ame]


Pulled off a few slick moves in there as well, until succumbing to the "devastating" flurries.

 

Read the article. It's a good one. Written by the late (and sorely missed) Bob Carson.

 

Yes, 'tis good. :good

Langtry apparently starred in a funny short silent film, 1903 :

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0422999/

 

that's true, but it takes a tough and skilled guy to outpoing legends like that, even over four rounds.