Newsreels rarely showed actual fight footage after 1912 due to the interstate ban on boxing films. This also applied to newsreels and so its very...
Unfortunately we dont know that nobody kept it. You are assuming that these films were held in the hands of private collectors and no longer exist...
None of this really tracks with how films as a whole were preserved/lost from this era. Its a very narrow view to assume that any film was lost...
The problem with this idea is that the Greb-Walker fight, which was filmed, was considered a great fight. The Greb-Gibbons fight was considered a...
Wills was too advanced for Jeffries.
As I recall, from reading the Greb bio, Greb was contracted to fight someone else and, last minute while he was in the ring, they tried to...
Turpin was still in his prime Olson was just better. Period.
You cant have it both ways. You cant say you cant give Hopkins attributes from his early career and then use the Mercado fight against him,...
Hopkins was simply too good, too big, and too well rounded for Hearns. People thinking that coming down in weight would hurt Hopkins are...
The Schaaf fight where he constantly snaps Schaafs head back with a thudding jab is his best performance. He actually looked quite good in that...
The Hearns fight was his last hurrah and even then he wasnt nearly as active as he once was although that could have been due to Hearns' height...
Maybe but he also couldnt compete with those guys without PEDs and he proved it by getting caught not once but twice in an era when it was still...
And Qawi who wasnt anywhere near as big or dangerous as Tyson and was old and shot to boot gave Foreman problems and a glass jawed Alex Stewart...
That and being pumped full of steroids. But Jones was too.
Mayweather might have beaten Pep based on his size advantage but Pep was a better and more skilled fighter, period, and didnt need bull****...
