Short highlight of Mickey Walker vs Jack Sharkey

Great Performance by Walker. Incredible Courage shown. This was literally the last middleweight to step up and take on a "heavyweight champion" while weighing near the middleweight limit. Also, Take a look at the picture posted above. Sharkey was chizzled, he showed up in top shape. You could tell when Jack didn't train because his body would often get soft. But Jack looked in good shape for this one.

I think the difference between Sharkey and Schmeling is Schmeling had the power to hurt Walker, while Sharkey was not a hard puncher. He could not keep Walker off of him.

 

From what I've seen of the Walker/Loughran fight it wasn't very close, in my opinion. Loughran was soundly out-boxing him from what I could tell, though it's been a while since I watched it.

 

ESB fans, Mickey Walker past his peak, and an overblown middleweight took on these big boys as
the powerful punching LH Paul Berlenbach 'dropped Paul twice-W.Dec.
Leo Lomski-power punching LH-W. dec.
Johnny Risko, heavyweight rubber man contender-Won 2 dec.
Arthur De Kuh..223 lb heavyweight, ko in 1st round..
Bearcat Wright-210 tough heavyweight dropped in 1st rd/ dropped Wright and Won. dec.
Jack Sharkey in prime- fought to 15 rd. draw
Max Schmeling in prime 1932 ,took right hands that kod Louis, ref stopped fight in 8 rds.
Question to ESB---Do you think that a Robinson, Monzon, Hagler, could have spotted
these larger and stronger men, while past their peaks, and accomplished what the aptly
named "TOY BULLDOG ", so remarkably did.? What say you, ESB?.

 

You sure, GreatA? I recall the edge if anything was with Walker but maybe I'm wrong.

 

Same as me.

 

Just checked a few myself, like you I feel Sharkey must have had the edge but the underdog factor kicked in. AP had it a draw 7-7-1 in a straw poll so it was damn close.
But hey how about this for a turn around, Sharkey had 30 pounds on Walker and drew and in his next fight spotted 60 pounds and won!
Think Dirrell drawing with Cunningham and Cunningham then outpointing one of the Klits.

 

Jeez Sharkey was a great boxer!

 

Oh and a bit of Boxrec trawling. Sharkey, the great enigma, Mr inconsistent, went from the Bud Gorman fight in 1925 to the Carnera title loss in 1933 with three losses, the Dempsey ko, the Schmeling disqualification and a split decision loss to Risko, and beat in that period, Wills, Godfrey, Schmeling, Carnera, Risko, Gorman, Stribling, Maloney, Delaney and Loughran to name only ten. Ootside the top ten ATG HW's (and not all of them?) who was more consistent, fighting quality, Schmeling maybe?

 

GreatA, how do you rate him vis-a-vis Schmeling, Baer, Tunney, Carnera, Braddock? and then again Walcott, Charles, Patterson, Moore?
I know most people have only ahead of Braddock and Moore in these equations but I think he looks better on film than the lot of 'em-am I crazy? Actually Walcott looks pretty good too.

 

Thanks, interesting. At least I'm not crazy(or I'm I am, I'm not alone!).