Harry Wills footage

Hardly the most objective source!

 

Easily? Getting dropped two or three times, once completely out of the ring, is easy?

Whereas Wills wobbled Firpo with a jab, dropped him, and completely controlled the entire fight for the easy, dominant win.

 

Yeah, he looks fuccing horrible.

 

Indeed, it's the only source I've come across. He didn't sound like he was bigging himself up but I do need to research further.

 

His fight with Dempsey should have happened in 1919 or 1920 when he was 29 .. who would have won is a question for the ages but he was bigger , stronger and fought and defeated far greater opposition ... in addition, he ws not the one who ducked the fight ...

 

Perhaps not, it's the only source I've come across on the fights, I'd like to find more.

 

http://news.google.com/newspapers?n...JUfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QNQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1731,4619732


http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=NZTR19220708.2.65.5

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/60967658?searchTerm=mcvey langford &searchLimits=



http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/60961684?searchTerm=harry wills &searchLimits=l-title=97


http://www.boxing.com/the_trouble_with_harry.html

 

So ray arcel's opinion is dismissed he is a Pom Pom waving Dempsey guy. Jack Johnson has an agenda against wills. The author is biased who wrote the article. You sound so objective.
Dempsey would have still been the favorite, as picked by experts of the time not merely gamblers.

I stand by my opinion of the footage it decreases my belief that Wills would have fared well against Dempsey.

 

Well, I dont know, it was back in the pre-color days.....

 

Excellent links provided Mcvey thanks. Hope you saw the link I provided on larry gains the other day on the mickey walker thread.

 

Wink wink

 

No I didn't but I will look for it. I met Gains briefly at the fights , he was a lovely, gracious man.

 

Firpo does look **** to be honest.

He seems a level below the likes of Tyson Furey!
Dempsey must have been asleep to get tagged by that telegraphed right hand.
An old Jack Johnson embarrassed Firpo in sparring for this fight.
Firpo was notoriously stingy ,wouldn't have a manager and trained himself, he weighed 8 lbs more for this fight than he had for Dempsey, he looks like a bar room brawler.