Tommy Gibbons shows MASTERFUL boxing in 1924, brutally knocking out Jack Bloomfield.

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  1. Melankomas

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    Made a small highlight reel of Gibbons' performance against Bloomfield.
     
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    Great stuff!
     
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    Excellent!
     
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    That is fantastic!
     
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  5. KasimirKid

    KasimirKid Well-Known Member Full Member

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    This version is a little fast. I like Gibbons though. I'm glad we have a film where he wins and is able to show his stuff.
     
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  6. Cecil

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    Gibbons looks really good.
     
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    In his autobio. Tunney said that, even though he (Tunney) had taken a beating from Greb, he was still thankful he didn't (at that stage) fight Tommy Gibbons. Tunney said Gibbons had a sneaky way of moving and bringing in the hook,and he (Tunney) was not eager to meet Gibbons until he (Tunney) had found a way to compensate for Tommy's tactics. Tunney thought Dempsey's victory over Gibbon's was very underrated.
     
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  8. Melankomas

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    I think people definitely overrate Dempsey's size advantage. Gibbons has overcome worse size disadvantages than 12.5 pounds before.
     
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  9. Melankomas

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    It amazes me how Tommy, according to @klompton2, was apparently thought of as a less technical version of his brother Mike at the time. Mike actually thought Tommy abandoned technique in favour of a power punching style. From this footage, I can't really see where he's coming from.
     
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    Very enjoyable!
     
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  11. klompton2

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    Mike made that comment in mid 1923 after Gibbons had lost to Dempsey. This fight was over a year later. Gibbons' quote was in the context of Tommy's run of KOs over tomato cans to position himself as a contender for Dempsey.
     
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  12. Melankomas

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    That makes more sense. So did Tommy 'return to his roots', so to speak, after that loss?
     
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  13. Greg Price99

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    I get the impression that the defensively excellent Mike, was considered the flashier and more natrually talented of the two.

    That said, as brilliant a career as Mike had, he never had a consistently dominant run of form as Tommy's up until 1920. In the 1910's Tommy went 47-0-2. He beat Harry Greb, the 15lbs heavier Battling Levinksy, Billy Miske x 2, Willie KO Brennan, Buck Crouse, Gus Christie x 4, Georgie Chip x 5, Clay Turner x 2 and Bob Moha.
     
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