If you can't see boxing evolved from the 1910s, nevermind the 1900s into the 1950s then you need a trip to specsavers
Poll is even right now, it’s a hard fight to predict for me. Cleve is just on another level of explosiveness, speed, size and power that Jeff has ever encountered. However, he isn’t particularly mobile and will be taking the fight to Jeffries which is Jeff’s favourite type of fight. Assuming his chin holds up and survives the early onslaught, I can see him slamming those short hooks on the inside before eventually finishing Williams. Getting on the inside comes with plenty of risks here, though.
This. However I am probably going to take the guy who was beating elite fighters from the opening gate, over the guy who generally came up short in his biggest fights, even in his prime.
Sullivan was a force of nature, a top of the food chain predator who didn't play about with his feed.
That’s reasonable. I generally don’t contemplate these types of matches anymore. Things like glove size, ring size, the rules, the training methods, the techniques widely used by fighters of one era as opposed to another and the weight parameters dictating placement of divisions were just way too different in 1900 than they were in 1960. Williams might be shocked by a man who can fight for 25 rounds in one evening while Jeffries might be equally surprised by a 6’2 215 lb man who can throw a lightening fast left hook like Cleveland . At the end of the day they fought in two different sports that just happened to have the same name.
Williams wins tko, between rounds 9-12. The accumulation of modern heavy handed blows from Williams break's down the older fighter, forcing the ref to step in or James corner to stop it.
Williams at his absolute peak, injury-free only lost to Sonny Liston. I doubt Jeffries turns that trick.
