10 Greatest Australian Heavyweight champions

Could suggest anyone else. Good list of fighters there!!

 

Good thread....dont know enough about the older fighters but some of the guys will be able to add to this.

Big Bob needs a mention....hes not it the class above but he munst have won 8 or 9 aussie titles....he also got his shots on the world stage and came close against Joe B.

 

Jack Johnson I understand got blasted by a shoot gun and lived to tell the tale!Both his arms were damaged.

 

I'm a bit surprised a few guys have not chipped in on this thread :huh

 

Firstly...GREAT THREAD!!!!!!!! :good

 

What does "glabal scale' mean :rofl

PS: Dont even start on my spelling mistakes :nono

 

Get ****ed.. I was trying to make a correction to my own spelling errors and add a few more pieces to the post when the wireless ****ed up...

As for your spelling mistakes, Its too easy to forgive you with nuts hanging from your forehead.

 

I did try to picture typing with nuts hanging from my forehead and I did LOL

In the end I guess only you can say what its really like :rofl

 

Your new avatar suits you and Mandy.. Shallow and transparent.

BoilerMaker, Im now sure where you got the dates from regarding Bill Farnan.. 1881?? July 26th, 1884 appears to be the year in 3 sources I have..even though Farnan may have claimed the Oz H/W crown due to Larry Foley not meeting him or anyone after the Prof. Billy Miller debarcle.

Anyway the fight was a unique match up in a more than unique ring.. 21 feet x 19 feet?? The boxing RING, roped off to become SQUARE.. only to be a fkn RECTANGLE??? Go figure.. and smaller than the actual Queensbury requirements.. lol Although being for the Oz H/W title, the newspapers still had to follow protocol, and placed advertisements stated the match up as merely an 'Exhibition of Boxing'.. such were the laws still in place.

Mundine still does little more than exhibitions and behaves in the same manner as John L.

 

you wont find a luds or an 20a37 in a thread like this....:good

greatest fighter of all time...bar none. darcy kod fulton in 2 in a spar when darcy was in the US before les died....who was fred fulton????

Of course it's quite difficult to predict the outcome considering the lack of footage on Fred Fulton but I'm sure one could come up with some kind of analysis based on all the newspaper reports and by comparing their achievements from 1915 to 1918.

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Fred Fulton listed as 6'4-6'6½ inches tall, 84½ inch reach, weighed between 210 to 220 pounds.

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Jess Willard 6'6½ inches tall, 83 inch reach, weighed around 240 pounds.

 

Kagsy was devastated when Jackson died....

 

ROFLMA!!!!!

Boilermaker.. Boxing was usually deemed 'exhibitive', with matches classified as nothing more. With the wine swilling top end of towners being the most 'fortunate' to witness brave and manly battles over the 3 minute venture, far less barbaric than the near do wells from the lower class of society, the likely hood of a disturbance in the crowd quickly rendered the 'exhibition' a draw,

In the days where the transition of 'prize ring' headed towards 'Queensbury rules', the acceptance of the sport was struggling in the shadows of pompous twats with dictorial-like attitudes. Patrons often remained welcomed to 'golf clap' and 'hoorah' a little as a fighter bettered another, yet as soon as the crowd become a tad roudy, the police would interfere, causing a cease to the bout. BETTING was the main reason for such, as was the external betting on semi-legal practices.... Allowances for betting, other than a suggested 'purse' to fight for remained taboo.. hence trainers, cornermen, fans and all available would clamber into mayhem, ceasing the fight and causing a draw- no side bet, agreed purse of stake of any sort would be finalised.

From all literature in my availability there seems nothing suggestive of Farnan being Champ in 1881.. His own claims through 1883 were continunously denied by Larry Foley who'd been taken to a 'draw' by Billy Miller.. albeit, Miller was paid the full gate and all betting moneys to agree with the choice of decision, thus allowing Foley's own record to remain unblemished. Therefore, Foley still laid claimancy to the title.

Foley and Farnan did 'spar' a few rounds, although Foley belittled the young Farnan for his lack of boxing science, to the point where an infuriated Farnan placed an advertisement requesting a 'meet' with Foley. Foley never bothered, instead placing his young apprentice, Peter Jackson in the throws.

The Farnan/Jackson bout did go ahead on July 26th, 1884 with Farnan coming out the victor (no, not Young V).. later claims of Peter Jackson being the victum of spiked water containing laudanum, morphine or potassium bromide raged.. even 20 years later the arguments were agreed on.. Either way, Jackson was beaten.

As for the return match of the same year, the strength of Farnan had Jackson well and truly stuffed by the 5th round. Body shots had all but destroyed the negro and the feverish crowd bustled to cause a stoppage to the bout.. The end came in the 6th round with a surge of punishment that dropped Jackson.

Police stopped the fight after a pretty ugly call from the crowd.. "the ******s licked'.. something that might give Ashley an instant erection??... Ending as a 6th round draw. A rematch again was touted for the following day.. not to be, nor was the proposal Richard K. Fox planned.. for John L. Sooky Pants to meet Farnan in Oz. This particular bout was being pushed as the greatest in all boxing history.. as all bouts of this magnitude, it fell through.

I guess those days in Oz were pretty much the yard stick for H/W boxing, and boxing as a whole at the time. Many claim John L. to be the greatest reason for Queensbury rules being accepted GLOBALLY (stick that up your arse Ashley), yet the poms and Aussies had the intentions well in place, even when John L was thrashing around in a drunken stupor, claiming to be the H/W Champ.. what a joke!!