Karl Mildenberger vs Tommy Farr

snooze..........

 

probably. still, a tight technical performance by mildenberger countered with aggression and counters by farr, who pulls ahead in the championship rounds. definitely goes 15 and in the end, tommy takes it

 

Farr's courage and hustle give him the edge in this one.

 

Farr by U DEc.

 

I don't think Farr had the firepower to crunch Mildenberger like others did...taking advantage of the German's less than stout chin, but he was stronger and tougher and would outwork him to take a convincing 15 round decision.

 

Farr by decision.

 

Tommy Farr by stoppage

 

Can someone more familiar with the era tell me how Farr did with southpaws, if he fought any of note?

 

As far as I know he didn't fight any of note.

PS I have a 100% record against lefties 1 fight, 1 win but every time I sparred with a southpaw I couldnt fathom them out.
Even coaching lefties left me scratching my head.

PPS do you remember or have you seen Jerry Quarry vs Jack Bodell ?
Bodell came at Quarry with his chin in the air and Quarry couldnt and didn't miss.

 

Have not seen that Quarry fight.

Picking how someone might do against a southpaw in a fantasy matchup is a shot in the dark if we haven’t seen that guy against a lefty … and if we haven’t, I figure that weighs the matchup toward the southpaw.

I’m a southpaw myself and it seems to me to often be a knife that cuts both ways — some guys really overthink it and it’s almost like you can see them doing arithmetic in the ring, like literally trying to figure it out, and that of course doesn’t usually bode well for them; on the other hand, I think if they just rush in like a mad dog and start swinging away, they usually end up with their lead foot inside almost all the time thus getting hit flush and missing wildly themselves. Seems to work best if it’s somewhere in between, a more measured approach.

I also remember one time many years ago I fought in a toughman competition at a bar that had toughman night once a week. I’m about 5-8 and weighed 175 and I draw a guy who’s about 6-2 and 225 pounds, give or take, pretty lean and muscular. Bell rings and the guy comes out southpaw and my first reaction, I’m ashamed to say, is ‘Oh crap he’s a southpaw, he knows that he’s doing.’ Well he was just a backyard brawler type and probably didn’t even know the difference between southpaw and orthodox — just came out throwing crude, telegraphed haymakers. I got inside and started working his body. By end of first round I was owning him and he was obviously tiring and I stopped him in the second. But even me being a coach at the time and a lefty myself, for a short bit seeing a fellow lefty caused a bit of panic.

Whilst on the subject of southpaws, I’ve got another story. I had a novice amateur, maybe two fights, at a show at a high school gym. We draw another novice, also only a few fights. Well everything is out in the open, not like we have locker rooms to warm up privately. So I warm my guy up and our fight is approaching so I want to do some light mitt work to get him ready. I look over my guy’s shoulder and see our opponent and his coach watching us. So I lean in and tell my guy to switch his feet and warm up southpaw. He says, ‘I don’t know how to do that.’ I said don’t worry, it doesn’t have to look good, they’re watching us and I want to mess with them. So we do about 2-3 minutes light with him going southpaw.

I see the other guy’s coach take him and start giving him some basic ‘this is what you do against a southpaw’ advice and then we’re off to the ring. My guy of course comes out right-handed and completely dominates the round as the kid is trying to do what’s asked by his coach but of course it’s not working because my guy isn’t a southpaw. We won that round and the second and then that kid really came on strong in the third and won it, but too late — we had two rounds in our pocket and won the decision. The fake southpaw ploy was the difference in the outcome, haha.

 

Would very probably go the distance. Tommy has the edge on skill but Karl also no slouch in that department but Farr has the greater variety in his arsenal.

Farr by close decision.

Good thread. Both fighters gave one of the two all time greatest heavyweights a tougher fight than was originally expected of them.

 

Karl Mildenberger was a tall awkward southpaw, his left to the liver on Sept 10 1966 made champion Muhammad Ali take notice, Ali stopped Big Karl by TKO 12.

 

Muhammad mentioned that Karl was one of his toughest opponents of his first career.

 

That was the fight that,after a reporter questioned Jerry about Bodell's awkwardness,Quarry replied "Well,he sure FELL awkwardly"