How do you classify Bob Satterfield?

Do you smell burnt toast? Anyway, best wishes on clearing the cobwebs, m8.

 

Glass cannon. Massive power, poor chin and obviously an exciting fighter.

 

He also had a loss to Jake Lamotta.

Let's be blunt he was no Rex Layne.

 

There is movie about him with Sam Jackson portraying him, right ?

 

Excellent fighter that had the talent to be a champion at light heavyweight or heavyweight, but didn't always take boxing seriously, which resulted in him under achieving.

He was a huge attraction and had two guaranteed paydays with one against Archie Moore and another against Marciano for the title, but couldn't handle prosperity and blew it both times.

Here's a piece on Satterfield that illustrates how he squandered his potential during his career.

In 1951 Satterfield was slated to meet light heavyweight champ Joey Maxim in Chicago. But the battle was switched to New York at the last minute and Maxim fought, and beat, Bob Murphy.

Then it was 1954 and Satterfield was guaranteed $30,000 if he'd take on light heavyweight champ Archie Moore in Miami. But first, Satterfield wanted one final "soft one," so they booked him against Marty Marshall.

Marshall knocked Satterfield out in the second round.

Later the I.B.C. promised him a shot at Rocky Marciano and the heavyweight title. While waiting for the match, Satterfield and Manager Ike Bernstein figured they'd pick up some easy money by taking on Johnny Holman. Satterfield had met Holman twice before. Once he knocked him out in the tenth round. The other time he finished him in the first round.

This time Holman knocked Satterfield out in the eighth round.

"I told Bob in the dressing room that night he'd have to make a choice," Bernstein said. "Either quit playing or quit fighting."

"If I'd grown up sooner I'd have been a long way by now," said Satterfield today. "A guy's gotta grow up."
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Jackson plays another real-life boxer, Tommy Harrison, who spent decades after he had retired (& Satterfield had passed away) posing as Satterfield while living on the streets. No one really knows why Harrison did that, but I believe he had trained at the same gym as Satterfield when both were active, & he was likely young Harrison's idol. The movie is called "Resurrecting the Champ" BTW.