micky walker

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  1. HeavyweightCP

    HeavyweightCP Boxing Addict Full Member

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    im a young AM Boxer so im studying micky walker.

    what are some fights i can see him in his prime?
     
  2. Surf-Bat

    Surf-Bat Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Vs. McTigue. A beautiful performance
     
  3. Anubis

    Anubis Boxing Addict

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    Ace Hudkins II shows him boxing in a way which might not have been expected of him w/out that film, and there's also footage of him battering Sharkey against the ropes. One of the earliest lighter weight fighters filmed in live sound, you can hear the impact of his past prime hooks against Schmeling.

    Milligan may well have been his peak performance. Originally filmed in live sound for British audiences, it was the only scheduled 20 rounder of his career.

    Good historical fighter to study. Unusually well documented on celluloid for a smaller man of his era, even without the missing Greb footage [which would be studied for Harry, not Mickey, if it ever turned up].

    Read his autobiography to capture his jaunty personality, and the whole glamorous mythology of the Roaring 20s. Some good details of his early career, and one of the more vivid descriptions of what it was like to face Greb in the ring ["crawling all over me"].
     
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    The Sharkey fight is a good demonstration of how to neutralise a physicaly superior fighter.
     
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