About how I see it. Sullivan had great right-hand power, good hand speed, and was game. Testimonials will tell you this. So you could say he has a puncher's chance. His skills I think would be crude by the standards of today, and defensively he'd rate as a tough man. His resume of A wins is rather thin. Best rated as a legand in his time who made the sport popular.
Half these guys today would cry like babies if they had all those fights bare knuckle. Floyd would be one and done. Calzaghe one and done. It would be a different story today without gloves. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G928A using Tapatalk
No. 201 pounds lean vs 245 pounds lean... It's the same weight difference as Amir Kahn and Kovalev... I pick the bigger guy in both cases... Safe bet...
Can't really blame them since fighting bare knuckle is horrible for your hands. Mike Tyson threw one punch and broke his hand against Mitch Green in that famous street fight. Floyd would actually have the least problems with it since he'd still be able to win on points with his weak pot shots provided the fight is under modern rules.
This! Many of the heavyweights today are of course yes bigger, but the previous Eras are light years more talented. Lost arts we shall call it. Many of today's big men gravitate from other sports and just get by on size and athletism.. Those cats from the 70's were polished fighters. Guys like Frazier would walk right thru guys like Wilder!!