Jim Driscoll vs Salvador Sanchez

Driscoll for me ,he was on a par with Pep for boxing ability,his left lead was immaculate ,and he carried stopping power in his right.Peerless Jim by Dec.Though I think the majority will go with Sanchez.

 

educated left hand

brilliant boxing ability

with a powerful right hand

i would go with driscoll out boxing sanchez for a UD about 10-5 or 11-4

sanchez would be competitive but Jims boxing skills would come into there own

 

Sanchez by KO.

 

you sure

sweet pea i dont often think you get something wrong

but i think your wrong here

also i would like to see your thinking behind it (as your more knowledgeable than me but i jsut cant see how you can get that outcome)

 

I just don't think Driscoll was a fully modernized fighter, good as he was for his era. I still rank him justly on an era by era basis, just not in head to head terms.

Not to mention there's not a whole lot of footage of him available anyway, so how people come to such a sure conclusion that he'd handily outbox a guy like Sanchez is beyond me.

 

Pat Cowdell?

 

And?

 

BIG DEE HERE= Driscoll by 15 or 20 rd dec.

 

I remember when I was a young lad having a book called something like "Jim Driscolls book of boxing", shame really because it's been lost over the years, probably a collectors item. In one part he said what surprised me that a good outside boxer doesn't have to be a good infighter.
Would that put him in good stead against the modern fighter or have there been modern fighters you could say the same about?

 

Jim Driscoll was from the 'stand-up-and-spear' school of boxing. He was economical, adept, accurate and punishing, but not in an ancient cloud of appreciation, supposedly incompatible to the modern era.

Leach Cross rushed at Driscoll all night only to be soundly tied-up, skirted around and peppered to death, by a fully rounded fighter by any measure.

When it came to boxing and boxing well in the purest sense, Driscoll was a bit of a monster. Sanchez was somewhat of a monster as well with his persistent excellence, but in this instance, the straighter punches of Driscoll and position excavating footwork would get him to over-reach and play a game he would just about lose.

 

Exactly how much footage of Driscoll is available, and how much have you guys seen?

 

Using a crab like style and a jab Cowdell took Sanchez to a split dec,Cowdell was a cagy boxer but several leagues below Driscoll who won just about every round against Abe Attell,and beat guys like Leach Cross .Driscoll was still good enough to draw with Owen Moran when he was 33 and suffering from ill health.

 

From my reading Driscoll was a beautiful technician and defensive craftsman, not adverse to messing around inside and utilising the dark arts, if not as a primary method.

Still...I wouldn't like to pick him against somebody like Sanchez without seeing a lot more.

 

Check him out against Robson,especially his quick right hands.