Georges Carpentier - Evaluate

Carpentier was a good fighter came up through the weights ,but his win over Smith was a dsq,Lewis was a Welter and the referee was holding Lewis's arm when Carpentier kod him. Dempsey was asked by promoter Tex Rickard to carry Carpentier for a couple of rounds to"give the folks their money's worth". Likely Dempsey could have dusted him quicker if he had tried.Carpentier was a fine LH but not top 10 imo.

 

McVey... Would yourself, or any others who read this post agree, that Carpentier had the greatest punching ability for any man his size, for the era?? Constantly braving fights against much larger men, his punch was on par with that of Tommy Burnes... IMO. He managed a fkn fantastic right hand on Dempsey. In all of Dempsey's title defences, its difficult to find another single blow that rattled his brain, as much as that of Carpentiers right hand.

 

A very good fighter who won belts ( French ) from flyweight to light heavy. Carpentier was skilled, I just don't think he was tough enough or durable enough to rate as top 10 ATG at light heavy.

 

Somewhere between 11-17. Like I said he was a high end skill guy, just lacked the top end punch and the ability to take one...which matter more and more as fighters move up in class.

I suggest you watch Carpentier vs Battling Siki. Great fight! Siki's durability and wild style wins over Carpentier's superior skills. Its a pity that the film was edited, and Siki kicked Carpentier when he was down accoridng to some.

The way I see it, Carpentier was on his way out.

 

Outside of Top 30 at lhw, and outside of Top 100 P4P. Not particularly skilled or fast or clever, good punch was all he had. Plus a lot of hype.
Smith didn't foul out. He barely grazed Carpentier when the latter went down, the punch had no power behind it, but Carpentier's manager saw it as a safe way of winning a dangerous fight.

 

Sounds like another great, with limited PUNCH, SKILLS...

Carpentier has a LEGITIMATE reason to be a top 100.

 

Remind me how good did he do meeting American fighters, even at his home turf?

 

The Siki fight was a fix.

 

To be fair to Georges his early defeats to Dixie Kid ,Billy Papke and Frank Klaus happened when he was 17 ,and 18 years old.Gene Tunney beat a faded Carpentier and remarked on his skills ,so did Loughran, he wasnt all hype by any means as his fight with Jeanette showed.In my top 20 at LH