The ESB Fitzsimmons Project

CT also you can use your mobile phone to record it, as mobile phones do everything these days if you know how to work them which i dont haha.

 

Nice one, is the Dempsey thing his book yeh?

All i have found on my Hard Drive is Zale vs Graziano 2 :yep im gonna upload it tommorow on YT

 

Im just as bad.

Luckily i have a video recorder.

 

I can fight exactly like Fitzy boy, but only whence thouse does haveth thy soup.

 

yeh would a appreciate it heard its good stuff

yeh the Fitz stuff works good, i cant think of anything i got on my computer like manuels or anything. Although i have a heap of Benny Leonard clip[pings saved on my PC.

im off for abit

 

im at the gym tonight so ill discuss it with my Karate freind.

Karate Sean as i call him.

 

yeh ill speak to him tonight about it

i just call him Karate Sean as at the gym there is about 6 Seans

theres Karate Sean, George Foreman Sean, Sean Sean, the other Sean and afew others

 

Bob Davis ,who was in Fitz's corner for the Corbett fight had this to say about Fitz.
Concerning the 6th round knockdown.
" Due to the high dry atmosphere of the mountains,4000 feetabove sea level,a crack h developed in Fitz's thick lower lip,and widened by Hickey in training bouts.It would not heal.
During the 4th and 5th rdsCorbett reached this tender spot with repeated left jabs.
At the beginning of the 6th rd it began to bleed.
A thin stream of blood ran down Bob's chin,where it began to smear.

Corbett mistook this red badge for something important,and stepped in with considerable vigour.
He planted a left on Bob's cheek bone.Bob slipped it off with a slight turn to the right.

Both men then mixed it,and ,as Bob came out of the clinch ,he slipped.Corbett was setting himself for a right wallop, but Fitz ,slightly off his balance seized Corbet around the legs and slid down his body to the floor.
Not a blow was struck during that entire performance .
It was merely a question of one man off his balance.
The moment his right knee touched he let go of Corbett,and Siler began to count.

Fitz had told Davis he would stop Corbett in 7 rds,

,"which hand ?","left hand", " chin or body?"."

"I'll it im somewhere in the body ,

it aint so easy to it is chin"

But Davis , thought that Fitz was too ambitious and typed his story to the New York Journal predicting Fitz by a 14th rd ko from a body shot
Between the 6th and 7 th rounds Davis in the corner said to Fitz "here comes the seventh Bob,what are you going to do?"
.Fitz replied " I cant get at im ,E's fast wait".
Davis says that Fitz knocked out one of Corbett's gold teeth in the 13th round with a short right hand across Corbett's left.
Davis avers that Fitz held his arm up to protect his eyes from the sun in the 13th round ,and that Fitz's wife shouted out ,keep out of the sun Bob,he stated this was the only remark she made to her husband the whole fight, so no" Hit him in the slats Bob".

Davis says that it was this round in which a stalking Fitz began to plant body blows on Corbett ,and that Corbett showed visible signs of stress.

Davis said that between the 13th and 14th round ,Fitz leaned down to him and asked ",ave you got any money on you? "
Being assured that Davis had $80 in gold on him, Fitz said,"Bet it all on the next round ,I am going to knock im out".

Describing the finish,Fitz said,he" came in with a left hand shift on his wind, and then ,without changing the position of my feet ,shot the same hand against his jaw,thus giving him the identical finish which I administered to Sharkey".
Davis asked the doctor who attended Corbett where the punch had landed,on being told it was the solar plexus ,he typed it into his story and the punch was famous ,though it had been in use for decades.

Davis stated that when Fitz fought Jeffries the second time he smashed both hands on Jeffries hard head , and had nothing left to fight with ,and although Jeffries face was a mask of blood and cuts ,it was Fitz who was considerably the worse off,he said in the last round Fitz stood in front of Jeffries, extended his arms and said" Hit me Jeff ", Jeffries, then landed the ko.

 

Corbett put together a fine combination to put Fitz down. Fitz was hurt for that moment, but recovered nicely. I'm not buying Fitz corner man statement where he says the knockdown had to do with Fitz being off balance. I have seen the kd a few times. Its Corbett landing, not Fitz slipping. Maybe Fitz was off balance because he was buzzed. That I could buy.