Rosenbloom was stopped very late in his career, and one other time that might have been due to a low blow. What made him so hard to stop? 274 fights, with only two stoppage losses? Was he that hard to catch clean? Was it a great chin / stamina? Was he runner?
Every newspaper present at his fight with Greb stated that Greb could have knocked him out but carried him. Even Rosenbloom in a rare minute of candor something to the effect of "he could have murdered me but let me stay." He was very fast, very tough, awkward, slippery, and experienced though and this made him hard to catch clean, hard to hurt, and hard to catch with a follow up if you buzzed him.
Good boxer with not much KO power (19 KO's) in 273 fights...maybe more. One of the tough Jewish fighters, from an era that produced some great Jewish boxers. He knew how to take care of himself in the ring. Had all the tricks/skills in the ring to win and survive.
The irony of Maxie Rosenbloom was that he was powerfully muscled and yet was a very light hitter. Not for nothing was he called "Slapsie Maxie". But he was a great light heavyweight who was good enough to beat John Henry Lewis THREE times.... As a youngster I used to listen to Sam Taub on Sunday radio. Each Sunday afternoon Taub would interview a famous boxer. One afternoon Taub interviewed Maxie Rosenbloom and asked Maxie "who was the best fighter you fought"? Rosenbloom responded immediately, Harry Greb !
Sailor Sam Taub and Slapsie Maxie, two great names from boxing I heard from dad when I was just a young boy. The yesterdays huh Burt!
Fast, slippery, awkward, durable, disruptive. He made good fighters look mediocre and great fighters look ordinary. Hard to get a rhythm going against him because of his awkwardness and mastery at disrupting a fighter's timing. Like Greb, he fought so often that he had to preserve his hands. So he slapped his punches.
As you get older T, the yesterdays fly by so darn fast it is scary. I get up in the morning, have a cup of java, read the newspapers obituary column, and see my name not listed and breathe a sigh of relief. cheers t.
According to his record on the BoxRec website, Maxie Rosenbloom had 298 bouts, not 274. 24 of his bouts were no-decision ones. - Chuck Johnston
This makes sense. A fast moving swarmer type who throws a lot of punches usually beats a defensive minded spoiler type. Greb was very fast, and threw lots of punches. He might have been one of the few able to catch up to Rossenbloom, and land a lot of punches on him.
you hear about guys who are gun shy about going all out on opponents especially if they've hurt someone or even killed them this guy just did not want to hurt anybody he didn't have a mean bone in his body yet he chose prize fighting as a career imagine that!
Anyone know what happened to Timmers? Forgot about this guy, see his posts in the old crypts of yore.
