Satterfeild is a fun guy to watch. He nearly took out Charles in round one. If he landed a good one, Roy’s taking the count.
When was Roy ever buckled or buzzed in his first 14 years as a pro? Satterfield was KO'd NINE TIMES in his first 7 years. Now how again does your chin argument work? And who on earth above 160 would ever beat Jones to the punch? Just more ludicrous nostalgia mongering.
Go and listen to Steve Lott talking about the Catskill days with Tris Dixon for the 27th time. Or will you be watching Mike Tyson: Beyond the Glory for the 83rd time? Or perhaps Mike Tyson: The Fallen Champ for the 58th time?
You must be unfamiliar with Satterfield's career. He was coming into fights in the early part of his career malnourished due to poverty which evidently had an effect on his durability. If you take him during his best years, then you will see he demonstrated a fabulous set of whiskers. Don't think I'm disrespecting Roy. I think he was a tremendous fighter. I currently have him between 81-84th on my P4P list. Depending on what day, I'll often have him switching places with La Motta, Fireman Jim Flynn or Sam Peter.
I think that's a bit harsh on Roy. I'd like to think he would be willing to take on the challenge. He did fight Toney and Hopkins afterall, albeit a level or two below Satterfield.
I've read plenty on Satterfield's career. The fact is that his weight range was pretty consistent throughout his career. He was a lauded Golden Gloves champ weighing 142 pounds at 16. As a pro two years later, he developed from a 173 pounder to a 183 pounder with a few dips. Against LaMotta, at 22 years of age, he weighed in at 167 1/2 (yes, boxrec has it incorrect) and was fit, active and ready in the ring. According to accounts, he matched Lamotta in the exchanges and was doing well up until the final punch. The problem wasn't weight, it was that even a soft handed LaMotta was able to turn off his lights. Will Connolly wrote in the SF Chronicle about Satterfield, talking to both his manager Ike Bernstein and Bob himself. Connolly claims the book on Bob is that "Everyone also knows that Satterfield often is carried back to his corner on his shield. He absorbs quite a few bangs, and not well." Bob also admits to being able to drop to the LHW range with no problem even at this very late stage of his career in 1957.
Nah, Neither Toney or Hopkins hit in Satterfield's zip code. That's why Roy took those fights, he knew he had better speed and skills, and the others didn't hit hard enough to really concern him. Jones didn't have a good chin at 175 pounds ( as we saw ). Satterfield was a pound for pound type of puncher, who hit much harder than Tarver did.
Again, simps fall for the "power" argument and back it with out of prime results. Nobody was able to dent Jones' whiskers for FIFTEEN YEARS. I think that is a reasonable sample size. That is longer than the entire career of Jack Dempsey, Rocky Marciano, Jim Jeffries... many all time great allegedly tough bearded fighters. Meanwhile, Satterfield lost to good and not so good fighters at a rate of 2 to 1. He had pretty much ZERO defense as was noted by observers and admitted to by himself. This one isn't even close. I don't know if Satterfield wins 1 out of 100 fights against Jones.
Did you figure that one out from the legendary, gin stained newspaper clippings in your smokey 1920s tavern?