[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opAJBr9G9MY[/ame] What a pleasure to watch, an absolute all time great fighter. One of the best technicians in history.
Beautiful to watch ! I´m not sure if I would call him an ATG though.....he doesn´t belong to my top 15 HW list.....
Walcott was the ultimate vetran fighter. A fighter who adapted, stayed fit and compensated by utilising his vast experience. He could have fought flat out and burned out years earlier but through his journeyman years got used to holding something back for the next payday developing a measured efficiency. Master of the feint. walkaway shot. I Like the way he shifted his weight onto eitherside to both move out of the way and load up. clever, clever man.
and along with Lloyd Marshall just about my most favoured of great fighters fit for anyone in their respected weight divisions!
Not only one of my favorite HW champs but one of my all time favorites period. I enjoy his style more than any other fighter.
It's too bad his whole late 40's campaign isn't on tape. There's always something to watch for in a Jersey Joe Walcott fight.
i laugh when people say boxing is too advanced in modern times. It regressed in many ways. Walcott was an artist.
I like and respect Walcott .. I view him as a crafty vet with a lot of game but do not rate him in my top fifteen or maybe twenty ... i definitely don't think he held anything back along the way with the vision of saving it for title shots late in his thirties ... Joe was a cutie, for the most part a tricky, safety first sort of fighter who rarely engaged his opponent ... giving him every benefit of the doubt for his pre-Louis journeyman career he is still for the most part know for his losses opposed to his victories aside from one left hook v.s. Charles ...
I was lucky to see the 32 year old Jersey Joe Walcott knock out a young sensational ko artist,Tommy Gomez in MSG, 1946...This was SIX years before Walcott was kod by Rocky Marciano in 1952 when Walcott was 38 years old...I would have loved to see the 32 year old Walcott I saw in 1946 against Rocky Marciano...
wow mr bienstock!! can you tell me, was walcott anymore reserved back then than he was in his title fights? Was he faster? Or was he the slick counter puncher of the Louis fights? A study of walcott's career proves that when he hooked up with bochichio he began to land important fights, had real training camps and he improved a lot. Walcotts career was a bit stop start during the war years. Looks like he took what there was and was'nt really groomed or guided like a prospect. although talented enough to score good wins as "the opponent" early on.