thanks guys! By the way, what did you think of the color correction in the video? It looked a lot better in the editing software than it does on youtube. I think it only ended up looking good on one or two shots
That Dauthille ko is amazing, the whole backfoot onslaught leading up to the droppage is just brilliant, so many ripping hooks with both hands to body and head, and he's stepping backwards as he's landing, making the optimal amount of room for him to throw and land the shots, devastating.
R, a very fine clip you gathered of that tough, tough Jake LaMotta. I enjoyed the Laurent Dauthille Ko in the last rd inwhich Jake was playing possum, until he opened up on th unwary Dauthille, in 1950. The last fight with Ray Robinson in 1951, where he was stopped in the 13th round, I regard as an abberation. It was well KNOWN at that time that LaMotta had to LOSE 10 pounds shortly before the bout, and Jake while ahead til the later rounds, was so weight drained that he had no more energy to fend off the attack of Robby, as Jake did FOUR times before. The second fight with the bigger light heavy brawler Bob Murphy was an example of LaMotta without having to be under 160 pounds..:good
Did you really have him ahead after ten rounds though? That's something that Jake always says but what the true statement should be is that 'I was the aggressor for ten rounds'
T, I am going by my impressions I have of that fight I saw so vividly, and what I have read, following the merciful stoppage.... Whether the official scorecard of the judges would have had LaMotta ahead or not, it is now academic...The fact remains that Jake was weakened by losing a good 10 pounds just prior to the bout. Both Jake and Ray at 30 were probably on the way down from their zenith days... Five months later LaMotta was stopped by the bigger brawling southpaw Irish Bob Murphy....
Fair enough, i wish i was at that fight! I was just pointing out that Robinson looks to be boxing very well on the backfoot for most of the first ten rounds from what i've seen on film. That's hardly a discredit to Jake LaMotta.
Supposedly the game plan of Gainsford and Ray Robinson, both knowing of LaMotta's weight drainage, was to get into the later rounds,and weaken LaMotta, before opening up. And it was the RIGHT strategy....:good