Jack Sharkey (Dempsey fight), Vs Marciano?

Sharks fought a great fight against Dempsey but he was unpredictable and perhaps under a certain threshold of duress atop an already precarious mental state, he was more prone to lose his sh*t.

@KernowWarrior highlighted exactly what I was thinking also - Sharkey would find cause to complain about fouls a lot more vs Marciano than he did vs Dempsey.

It’d be a good to and fro fight for a certain period, say 8-9 rounds maybe, but Rocky will remain strong and steady as Jack begins to slowly break down. I’d guess a TKO rd 10 for Marciano.

 

To think Pug that Jack had the last name of Sharkey way before Mike Tyson killed Sharks for sport. Ha Ha.

 

You know there was a guy named Tom before Jack??? This Tom was a pretty good fighter though he was short of winning the world title.

 

And here’s Jack training and then shaking hands with his namesake and idol, the original gob, Tom…”My mother said, to get things done, you’d better not mess with Sailor Tom, My mother said…etc.”

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Tom is all bandage up>???? Wonder what happen?? It's been years since he retired, so it could not be a boxing match lol.

Seeing Jack and Tom really reminds us we are only a few handshakes from the time of George Washington. My Great Grandad told me of the civil war vets he meet when they were alive, and I am sure being in the 1860's, they meet the revolutionary war vets of the 1780's.

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Good pick up. Tom was about 54 yo in the clip. I could take a wild shot and wonder if he was a drinker and had a fall. Otherwise, he possibly still got in the ring for light exhibitions and maybe caught one accidentally.

That footage of the civil war vets is amazing. The guy that did most of the talking was quite a character. Different breed back then.

 

I know in the late 1920s Tom Sharkey and James J Jefferies did do Vaudeville but i could never imagine either genteel fellows hurting anyone .....could you?

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Yep, Rocky was a different animal Ferg.

I think it would be hard to find anyone who fought anything like he did.

That would be good for Rock because, no matter who you’d fought before, you’d only know what you were in for against Marciano when you actually stepped into the ring to face him - and what you were in for would be downright scary - every inch of your body would be eligible for incessantly applied punishment.

 

And why does Jeffries looks like he has more boxing ability here in this mock fight with Sharkey than the real one with Johnson? Here you can see him moving around and well boxing where vs Johnson he was just in slugger mode??

 

Marciano would butter this guy. Different levels!

 

Well i would guess that he knows that Sharkey is not intent on hitting him, and the 'fight' is brief in length, plus this was part of the vaudeville show the pair put on, so entertainment being the intent.

Jefferies knew that Johnson would give him a masterclass in boxing if he tried to be the boxer, so reverted to his tried and tested method of taking punches to land punches.

Jefferies knew that the Johnson fight was over possibly 45 rounds, that is a hell of a lot of time for a former overweight retired boxer to cope with, and Jefferies is reported to have stated his intent of getting Johnson out of there quickly, that suggested brawn not fancy boxing.

 

When we talk the great intimidators, we often cite the usual suspects, Liston, Foreman and Tyson.

Both their purposely threatening demeanours and prior performances in the ring were enough to put fear into their opposition before opening bell.

Rocky never played the psychological intimidation game - but what he did in the ring had to prey on the minds of future opposition.

At least in that regard, I would think Rocky carried a good measure of intimidation around with him - without even trying.

Certainly, in their rematch, it seemed Jersey Joe - who still looked in great shape, age notwithstanding - decided that he didn’t want a replay of their first brutal fight - and therefore he stayed down for the count after the KD..…

Who could blame him? He could’ve literally been suffering from PTSD as a consequence of their first fight.

 

Walcott's handlers said he froze,in the dressing room he wouldn't talk. He was like a dead man walking.I don't think his body had the same muscle tone it had in their first fight.
Marciano ruined a lot of guys.Cockell,Lastarza,Charles,Layne, were never the same afterwards.Systematic beatings will do that.