What would Jeffries look like with a modern trainer, and access to dietary supplement

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  1. choklab

    choklab cocoon of horror Full Member

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    so they say...
     
  2. janitor

    janitor VIP Member

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    With the benefits of modern fertilisers and herbicides, Jeffries would have found farming much more lucrative, and would likely never have stepped into the ring.
     
  3. choklab

    choklab cocoon of horror Full Member

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    If Jeffries came along ten gears from now he might be around to see a 4 legged chicken, radio active cow and peach with no stone in the middle.
     
  4. HOUDINI

    HOUDINI Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Prime Jeffries was 220 and ripped. Films although not great quality show a fighter with skill but is impossible to gauge just by looking at these films how skilled. Thus you look to what those who saw him live and in person wrote and all is glowing. He was a great fighter and IMO great all timers would shine in any era.
     
  5. Big Ukrainian

    Big Ukrainian Boxing Junkie

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    He would've been like 240-245 lbs, more muscles and more ripped
     
  6. he grant

    he grant Historian/Film Maker

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    Jeffries would be the size and build of Tommy Morrison ... his reach would not be longer and he would not be taller .. as far as the distance does , Jeffries punch output was dictated by the length of the fight ... he said this himself in a review of Dempsey ... he would only commit to some many punches per round for a ywenty five round fight because he knew he may have to save for the distance ... it like a half mile runner compared to a mile runner ... he would have to train for a different style nd punch output ..
     
  7. john garfield

    john garfield Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Why does it matter, M? Jeff was a heavyweight fighter, not vying for Mr. Olympia.
     
  8. Mendoza

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  9. guilalah

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  10. heavy_hands

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    jefries was bigger framed than morrison, he had much thicker legs , he weighed as much as morrison in a much older era. obviously jefries would have been bulker, a soild 230 pounder, more compact than morrison and stronger.
     
  11. he grant

    he grant Historian/Film Maker

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    Morrison weighted 235 ripped .. Jeffries defended against Sharkey, Corbett and Fitz at between 208 and 215 ... he did not weigh as much as him. We have no idea how strong he would be since he would not be fighting cruiser weights but super heavyweights ...
     
  12. Mendoza

    Mendoza Hrgovic = Next Heavyweight champion of the world. Full Member

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    Morrison started out around 210 pounds. He was a heavy steroid user... He says so. He was fat above 235. His best weight was around 225
     
  13. RockyValdez

    RockyValdez Active Member Full Member

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    Jeffries looked fantastic as it was. With the benefit of steroids I have no doubt he would have looked like a monster.
     
  14. heavy_hands

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    morrison never weighed 235 pounds ripped, he weighed 226 in his prime
     
  15. heavy_hands

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    this