Joe Jeanette Was great, end of story.

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  1. gregluland

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    gregluland Boxing Addict Full Member

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    if the click on video doesn't work click on the link below, I have never been able to get videos up in this forum so if anyone can tell me how I will fix this..... cheers. Until then we discuss Joe Jeanette's greatness.
     
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    Jeanette won the greatest fight ever
     
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  4. reznick

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    Great post, thank you!
     
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  5. gregluland

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    You are welcome, that fight with McVea is the sort of fight none of us today can even imagine, the closest we get is some footage of what must be one of the best five fights in gloved boxing history, the Nelson V Wolgast fight but all those knockdowns, fargan, and against McVea the Mike Tyson of his day (McVea was a massive puncher in the Tyson mould), it beggars belief that jeanette could have won this one. Of course he has many other reasons to claim greatness as well but surely this fight stands out.
     
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    Can't believe McVey went down 19 times, and got up 19 times.

    What a fight that must've been.
     
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  7. Mendoza

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    Jeannette was down 21 times too. I'd love to see this film. They say Jeannette was in a dazed in the early round and one punch from Mcvey helped him regain his bearings.
     
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    Incredible.

    I wish boxing fights were longer. 12 rounds is too short!
     
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  9. McGrain

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    I'm pretty sure a lot of this multiple kd stuff has been debunked. It comes from the original dispatches by - I think - Jeanette's manager to the US press, who carried it. But it was hugely exaggerated. I don't think any of the ringside press carries any of this.
     
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    Don't kill Christmas for me McG
     
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  11. gregluland

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    Yeah for sure it sounds exaggerated but without some kind of proof to back up any revisionism here I have to regard this as fact. So far I am yet to find anywhere where either Jeanette or McVea have come out and said...."hey look it was that many knockdowns some of them I was merely staggered"... so far I have heard none of that. I used to doubt the story of Nelson V Wolgast on how they fought at a furious pace and the brutality of that fight.............. then I saw the film of it and and all I could do was sit there with my head spinning.
     
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  12. Webbiano

    Webbiano Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Considering it took place in France, should we assume there isn't any ringside reports in English?
     
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    French can be transated for those who don't speak it. The ringside reports don't support the myth that there were upwards of 30 knockdowns in the bout regardless of the language they were written in.

    On a side note this bout was filmed. When I found the Langford-Jeanette film in the archives in France there was also a catalogue record for the film for this fight but it had deteriorated and no longer existed. Likewise with Langford-McVea and several of Georges Carpentier's fights like his bout with George Gunther.
     
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  15. gregluland

    gregluland Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I should have said from the get go that even if you dismiss this story of that fight that Jeanette is still great, he was a seriously talented and great fighter and has the credentials to back it up.
     
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