The Greatest Athlete to every box

Fogey,

I eat up Bogie and Cagney, as well as Robinson and George Raft flims........ I love and have that stuff on video-tapes' galore...........

Horror with Karloff, Lugosi and Chaney Jr. is also to my liking........

Abbott & Costello, The 3 Stooges, Marx Bros., W.C. Fields and the Bowery Boys all make me laugh..........

MR.BILLbbb:thumbsup

 

Boxing is such a unique sport. Even the best athletes arn't guarenteed anything.

I have seen professional 1st grade rugby league players flung around the ring by blokes who seem lower than the average person on the street. They come in and get exhausted train on the bags, then want to spar. What happens next is a phenomenon.

Great thread btw.

 

I was gonna say Jeffries. I heard he was one of the fastest runners in his time also some other good feats of strength i hear.

 

:goodthumbsup:hat

 

Amen to that MB. Im in my 30s and find it very hard to find films with the calibre of funny one-liners than i do with cagney and bogart etc.

P.S. watched wallace beery in 'The champ' recently and i was in total awe at his world champion prizefighting physic

 

Jeffries ran 8.7 seconds for the 100yd dash with a bull moose on his shoulders,he could high jump 15ft from a standing start,and fart like a cannon .

 

...Is he any relation to William Wallace by any chance?

 

First cousin.
Jeffries was Dutch /Scottish/German / Cherokee/Comanche. Jewish/Catholic, with Lutheran tendencies, which he hid from the press.
He was so hairy, he had to shave his body twice a day.
Some doubt he really was human, and believe him to have been a Congo Gorilla.

 

Yes, SNV has the same problem now.

 

Probably a distant relative :good

 

Not only the above, but Jeffries brother was an only child !!

 

Nice one Burt :good

 

Earnie Shavers was a surprisingly good athlete. According to his book, he played FB and Defensive Line in High School and ran track. In the late 70s he won the superstar competition 100 yard dash with a 10.6, which is pretty good for a 30 ish HW.

 

Paul Anderson was the strongest, I think.

 

I sit corrected.