Jim Jeffries vs. Bob Foster

Jeffries,body shots.

 

Jeffries breaks him down

 

I doubt that this os the one time that Foster goes against his career trend, of falling short when he moves north of 175.

 

Anyone who remotely thinks that Jeffries has a chance is deluded. Any world champion boxer relatively close in size post 1940 annihilates him and any of his peers from that primitive era.

 

Jeffries is tough, I don’t know how he’d do against heavyweights like Lennox but a LHW who wasn’t very physical… Jeff from all we can read applied his pressure, crouched and pressed his claim over insane rounds, in his day there was also a higher capacity of wrestling, clinch fighting, Jeff would man handle Foster and eventually stop him when he can’t hold his arms up. When you read how unsophisticated Marciano is supposed to be according to writers it makes me assume Jeff was also a lot better then “the literature” suggests.

 

Boxing of that era was primitive, Foster destroys him with ease

 

Nah it wasn’t, it really wasn’t. Bob Fitzsimmons was a marvel to Joe Gans, Joe Gans was from the era of Blackburn and who taught Joe Louis everything he knew? Do you think all the things Bob Foster learnt were invented in the 70s? LOL nope.

 

Watch some footage from that era. They look like dinosaurs. I'm also not one claiming modern boxers are the best, I believe the top crop from the 40s/50s would annilihate the current crop.

 

This content is protected

This is before the Fitz era, clear footage, not slowed down and Charlie Chaplin like.

This content is protected

What do you see wrong with Jim Corbett here? He’s playing for the camera but…

This content is protected

Joe Gans is a great isn’t he? Think about this, if the best fighters you think came from the 40s who do you think was training them? lol.
Archie Moore was trained by a bare knuckle boxer so was Charley Burley… that’s further back then the Corbett Era.
Maybe I can help a little? What do you see wrong with all this?

 

Even if you are right, they are not relatively close in size.

 

I’m with foxyboatman on this one, technique had evolved significantly between the eras, fighters couldn’t catch and shoot, they’d start flailing arms in the exchanges and pawing with their hand out, they couldn’t put punches together, Foster would beat him to the punch in the exchanges because he has more refined technique and tighter punches and would outbox him on the outside, he was a better boxer, Jeffries just walked forward in predictable lines, Foster could feint and not be as predictable with his punches which would allow him to beat Jeffries to the punch on the outside.
Foster knocks him out.

 

Gotta say Jeffries. He's got the all round better chin here, the more robust.
He'd end up stopping Foster.