classic boxing pictures

Lucky crowds on hand to witness frantic Dempsey training session

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Demps and Muhammad Ali flank Mickey Walker and Pastrano - Toy Bulldog got award for services to boxing and Pastrano for fighter of the year

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Clay looks a bit a sixes and sevenses as Liston Looms

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Philadelphia Jack O'Brien and Professor Mike Donovan

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Joe Louis had a great deal of respect for Ramage's boxing ability

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Benny Leonard looking in on the Loughran-Sharkey weigh-in

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One of my fave pictures

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Another of my favourite shots - a photo almost as good as Tommy Gibbons' left jab

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Another tough guy - actor cum wannabee fighter Victor McGlagen - who duked it out with John Wayne...and oh..Jack Johnson

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Walker and Lomski weigh in

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Will Smith does a spot of method acting with The Great Man

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Oh my Rocky, I have never seen this photo of my favorite gladiator of all-time , Harry Greb. Probably of the first fight in 1922 which my dad saw ringside at the old MSG. ESB, look at the size disparity between Tunney and Greb...At the end of the first fight Tunney looked like he tangled with a threshing machine...:good

 

you know just as a footnote. when we see some of these Top Quality black & white photo's, it's a further proof that Film footage of the early 1900s to about the 40s (general speaking), with the 'odd' rarity that was actually done right.

Anyway these Top photo's show everything in perspective, where as the film lets down. Two perfectly oiled machines here in Greb & Tunney, who as Burt always says "walked, talked, ran, worked, **** & _ucked in the same manner as we do today...

it's absolutely mental to think they didn't fight proper either!

see that video of Eric Boon & Johnny McGrory, I put up on the Greb thread. An excellent Still, says as much too.

 

I'd love to see this experiment : record a fight nowadays using the same methods that where used back then and film the whole fight from the same angle. It would be fun to compare !