The greatest fighters for whom no footage exsists

It would be ridiculous to atempt to make a judgment because we have no footage.

Frankly I question whether any of them even existed.

 

Harry Greb is an obvious choice.

We know which fighters were great because they were the ones who took on all-comers, local champions and challengers with reputations, and beat them, and fought the big time epic fights. We can also assume the men who beat known fighters who were MUCH BIGGER than themselves were great too.

Guys like Kid Lavigne and Joe Walcott were great.

Exactly how they looked compared to filmed fighters is impossible to gauge correctly. Forming a firm opinion of their chances against later (filmed) champions is impossible. In my opinion.
This is most severe in the cases of fighters who dont exist on film AND WHOSE OPPONENTS dont exist on film.

But we cant deny greatness with the weight of evidence to support certain fighters.

 

I disagree.
Records alone are enough to determine greatness.

 

Fight footage or any footage?
Jack Britton
George Dixon
Joe Walcott
Kid Lavigne
Tiger Flowers
Johnny Dundee
Abe Attell
Young Griffo
Panama Al Brown
Pete (Kid) Herman
Nonpareil Jack Dempsey
Jack McAuliffe
Jack Blackburn

 

Nonpareil Dempsey and Greb.

 

There is footage of Panama Al Brown.

 

My bad, it was given as simply 'Al Brown' without the Panama prefix, so I didn't notice it.

 

Good list ,maybe Les Darcy could be included,its strange that the Herman Wilde fight wasnt filmed.

 

There's some footage of Darcy's fights with Eddie McGoorty, Dave Smith and Jimmy Clabby available.

Also, I think a bit of Johnny Dundee's fight with Eugene Criqui is out there.

Some others for which there is no footage (that I know of) :

Bob Montgomery
Freddie Miller
Pedro Montanez
Wes Ramey
Frankie Genaro

 

Thanks for the info:good

 

I believe there is footage of Darcy/George Chip as well.

 

There is a little on Marshall...the '46 bout with Charles, and some footage against Freddie Mills.
I'd love to see Holman Williams (especially the Satterfield fight)