Tommy Burns Names Jeffries As The Greatest

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  1. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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  2. Vanboxingfan

    Vanboxingfan Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Yes, but Burns and most other heavyweights also picked Jeffries to beat Johnson when they fought, and they were wrong, so what does that say?
     
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  3. mcvey

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    Its worth whatever you think its worth, but Burns did at least see Jeffries fight which 95% of those that rate him did not.
     
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  4. Danmann

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    List of past champs then was not too long.
     
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  5. mcvey

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    This is true , but it did include Corbett, Fitz, Dempsey and Tunney.
     
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  6. Stevie G

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    Burns,for probably the most bigoted of reasons,would never have admitted that Jack Johnson was the best ever up to that time.
     
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  7. Seamus

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    At least Burns fought Johnson and allowed him a shot at the title. That was more than a lot of previous and some later champs allowed a black man.
     
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    This is true.
     
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  9. Nightcrawler

    Nightcrawler Boxing Addict Full Member

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    of those i have dempsey rated top at heavy, fitz p4p
     
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  10. mcvey

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    Burns rated Johnson no 2.:good
     
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  11. mcvey

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    And was castigated by both Sullivan, and Jeffries for selling his title to a black man.
     
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  12. Seamus

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    Who can really trust a Canuck?
     
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  13. mcvey

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    Joking aside, I wonder if Burns racism was more pragmatic than supposed , he was an admirer of Sam Langford's .
     
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    Nightcrawler Boxing Addict Full Member

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    :twisted::twisted::twisted::twisted:
     
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    is this not a face you can trust?
     
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