'Professor' Mike Donovan sparring Billy Edwards, 1905

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  1. Dubblechin

    Dubblechin Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    If he was one of the finest tacticians in boxing, then the rest were awful.

    Head straight up. Chin up. Back arched. No head movement. No guard. Hands at his waist. He looks and fights awful. Basically the same age as Mike Tyson is now. (And he's had a hard life.)

    There's no harm in respecting the pioneers of the sport, but times have changed.

    Here is "The Professor" in blue if he fought a novice boxer today in a current boxer's pro debut.


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    Dubblechin, May 31, 2023
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  2. Melankomas

    Melankomas Corbett beats your favourite fighter

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    You can't compare 58 in 2023 to 58 in 1905, it's just not fair. Plus, Mike has the help of good ol' roids to keep him in shape.

    Also I think it's unfair to say that Donovan didn't employ head movement or a guard. He feints with his head quite a bit throughout the clip, like at 0:17, 0:37, 0:50, 1:40 and 2:38. It's not excessive, and he gets hit quite a bit, but give the guy some credit he's old asf. Did you see how he collapsed in between rounds? This clearly isn't a man in the prime of his life. Even in spite of that, Donovan still makes up for this handicap and parries most of the punches coming his way.

    I don't think anyone's picking the 58 year old Donovan against Muhammad Ali
     
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  3. Melankomas

    Melankomas Corbett beats your favourite fighter

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    I mean against 58 year old Ali, then that's a different question! Donovan ****s Ali up in that case
     
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  4. Melankomas

    Melankomas Corbett beats your favourite fighter

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    Footage of Langford vs. Jeannette didn't appear until 2010, same thing with the Greb training footage which didn't come until the early 90s. It's not impossible.
     
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  5. Nosferatu

    Nosferatu Corbett's thong is my proudest fap banned Full Member

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    I find it odd how Mike Donovan and Billy Edwards (especially in the second video) look better than Corbett, Fitzsimmons, Johnson and Ketchel. Real mindf#ck
     
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