Lee Oma vs. 2017 heavyweights

Loughran beat Carnera. Sorry if you didn't understand that.

Yeah there's not much to say, don't bother.

Not the footage itself. It's usually just your exaggerated opinion that goes along the footage that is "unfair".

 

You look at guys like Oma's record, and compare it to more modern fighters who reach the same level of boxing. And there is a huge disparity in the amount of losses.

So you look at their losses to find abnormalities that can explain the phenomenon, and the main difference you see is the frequency of fights they have. And then, you'll notice that the obscure losses often happen when the frequency of bouts is abnormally high.

Look at Galento. Remove from his record all the fights he had in the same week and same month, and all of a sudden it looks normal.

 

Take out all the losses from Galentos record where he had a fight within 2 months, and his record is 80-3.

The only times he lost, when he had more than TWO months break between another bout, were against Louis, Max Baer, and Buddy Baer.

 

He did cagey things...except when he didn't...yeah.....

Because Oma moved his head.

Demonstrated skills against all time great fighters can only be a positive.

 

I didn't see faster.
Loughran was faster than Carnera.

Scott does not look faster than Oma. And Oma's punch output is way better. He's a far better puncher than Scott.

 

That is a very telling statistic!

Shows you why you shouldn’t compare numbers across eras!

 

Yeah, I just noticed it recently. Once I noticed, I can't unsee it.
Next time you're on the Boxrec page for an old legend who has an abnormal amount of losses, look how many journeymen losses occur within weeks or a month with other bouts.

What happens when you run the experiment on Robinson record?
He goes from 19 losses to 6.

Think about the psychological affects of fighting twice a month, or twice a week. It desensitizes you to the importance of each bout.

 

Oma has a 30% ko rate 29 stoppages in 96 fights.
From Dec 1939 until Dec 1941 Oma had18 fights and won just 5!
From May1946 until May1948 Oma had 9 fights and won just 1! What was he doing right in those fights?
Revisionist nonsense!

 

How about the times he went for a swim?

 

Cmon.
You don't think fighting at such a high frequency matters?

Multiple professional bouts within weeks of each other, often?