Greatest Heavyweight Of All Time At Their Peak

Let's not forget the millions and millions that didn't get to see them.

I wasn't comparing directly, of course, I was just referring to the era's penchant for embellishing and story telling. Don't you agree that the reporting starts to be much more prosaic from about the 20's, 30's onwards?

One has to remember that journalism, as known today, was still a pretty novel concept. And there were no other medias checking the printed one.

 

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Didn't expect that. No offence was taken at all.

 

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I said "too much". Surely. Otherwise, I made pretty clear afterwards, that that was my point

Man, you really, really make my point for me. I realise you still were eating your own poo (and rubbing it in your face - to qoute the great Busey) at the time, but you do know that this was before the reunion, right? Germany was as much an official country then as Yugoslavia is today.

 

Oh, man this will start evolving into a discusion about the evolution of journalism and how other media serve a fact checking function.

I'll try and boil it down to these observations:

The most fantastic stories about fighters seems to abound from the day before film became prevalent.

If not for film that is readily avalaible for anyone still today, the story about the 3-5 minute break between round 4 and 5 in the Clay-Cooper fight would still be undisputed fact.

 

No, you didn´t or I wouldn´t argue.

:roll: get of your high horse. Germany was Germany after November 1989 just because bureaucracy is slow doesn´t make it any less true.

 

The interesting thing about Clay-Cooper though, is that the myth persisted for so long. Only when the film had been watched thousands of times for many, many years did someone put the finger on "****, there really is no extra break to speak of"

There was at least as many on Clay-Cooper.

To summarize: I'm automatically a bit sceptical of the contemprorary accounts on Sullivan, Jeffries and Dempsey since they at times make them into invincible beasts, when reality shows this is not so. But I certainly don't discard all of them. For example, Langford's admiration of Dempsey really impresses me and may, together with other similar accounts, just push Jack back in my top 10. But i still preach some caution.

 

Max Schmeling!

Seriously though, Scott LeDoux. At least, he was the greatest heavyweight COMMENTATOR of all time. He would guest on ESPN and be 1000 times better than Teddy Atlas.

 

and because they look like **** on the film we do have

 

You actually bore me to tears.

Go City!

 

There is that to a degree...