The Best of the Rest: 175lbs Tier II Tournie - Round 1 - 2: Max Rosenbloom UD15 Billy Miske

What i've done is i've lifted top tiers out of my top fifty at the poundage, fiddled it a little bit to minimise guys with no footage and used the remaining 32 names plus some subs to develop a seeded tournament to uncover "the best of the rest" at the poundage, with you, the denizens of the world's greatest boxing history forum, casting the deciding vote.

Pick your man! Write however many details you like or don't in a post below. But maybe try to post, to keep things moving a little bit. You have three days.

And let's be nice. No reason for disagreeing over total fantasies after all!

15 rounds, 1950s rules and ref. Ten points must. Weigh in is 18 hours before the fight.

I'll only vote if it's tied, then I'll decide the result.

Round of Thirty-Two Fight 2 - Max "Spalsie Maxie" Rosenbloom vs Billy "The St. Paul Thunderbolt" Miske

MAXIE ROSENBLOOM (207-39-26)

Everyone beat Max Rosenbloom - in part, this is because of this attitude to big business. With the world-title on the line, he was a different beast and one that more often than not emerged triumphant from a skittish, rough, difficult fight. So Joe Knight was able to beat him, comprehensively according to some, in 1932 but come 1934 with the title on the line and Rosenbloom was able to scrape home to a draw and retain his championship. That same year, 1934, Rosenbloom dropped a decision to Mickey Walker over ten in a non-title fight, but the previous year in a confrontation for the championship of the world, Walker had managed to win perhaps as many as three out of fifteen rounds. Bob Godwin managed two draws over ten narrow rounds in his run up to his title-shot at Rosenbloom, but come that night he found himself in the ring with a different fighter, an aggressive, direct one who dropped Godwin twice in the first round and re-opened cuts the challenger had suffered in training to stop him in four.

Hardly a pushover in non-title affairs, he did manage to beat fighters as good as Lou Scozza and Leo Lomski without any gold on the line but it is a fact that he was better with a glittering motivation ringside. His s title record is 7-1-2, the losses coming against Bob Olin, who dethroned him, and Jimmy Slattery, who repulsed him in his first shot at a title. Probably light-heavyweight's greatest flawed genius.

BILLY MISKE (43-3-2)

My admiration for Milly Miske and his light-heavyweight exploits grew in leaps and bounds after reading Clay Moyle's "The St. Paul Thunderbolt". His finest year at the poundage was 1916 in which he got the better of: Jack Dillon (twice), Bob Moha and Battling Levinsky, serious results from a serious fighter. Billy Madden discussing Miske at this time:

"That youngster is one of the best fighters I ever saw and I've seen the best in the game for the last forty-five years...Miske is very fast and shifty and he delivers his blows with both hands in rapid-fire fashion.He is an ideally built fighting man."

 

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You should definitely vote in the poll.

 

Rosenbloom looks a runaway winner!

 

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Max Rosenbloom UD15 Billy Miske

Ladies and gentelmen, it's Maxie. Nor was it close, which surprised me a little. He cuffed, and tricked Miske into a bad patch round after round winning a wide unanimous decision in a fight that was low-key competitive and never thrilling.

Two fights in the bag, two clean winners!