It is fair to say that he had made 175 three times in the previous three years and fought well at that weight. But his overall career shows that...
Maxim did have one problem that Robinson didn't have. He had to make weight. Making 175 was NOT normal for Maxim. After Jan 1, 1942, when he...
Where this could be heading is a premise that Robinson was simply more susceptible to extreme heat and so it was going to effect him more. The...
I must say in fairness to Dan Daniel, he did not mention the Jeffries-Sharkey fight in his article. Any criticism of bringing up that fight...
"Maxim couldn't have won a decision on the OFFICIAL cards" Yes, but did Maxim or his corner know that. I think the fight was closer than the...
"debating whether the tortoise might still have beaten the hare if the hare hadn't taken a nap." Which was fiction. In a real event, we have to...
It is hypothetical. I think the way the fight would have been fought if cooler is probably reflected in the first round. Maxim would have been...
"You would have to think that Heat was the main factor" Reasonable. But don't overlook that Maxim was the only good big man Robinson was ever in...
Well, I scored the fight and this is how it came out. 1-----Maxim 2-----Robinson 3-----Robinson 4-----Maxim 5-----Robinson 6-----Maxim...
But that issue of The Ring also had another take, by Dan Daniel "little would have been written, little would have been said over the radio,...
In fairness "the heat got him" was the point of view of the ringside experts. Here is perhaps the best known of them, Nat Fleischer, in his Ring...
"Despite winning only one of the first 10 rounds" That scoring isn't my scoring. I see it as a lot more competitive. "as for outboxing Maxim,...
"I'm not saying that Robinson would knockout Maxim" Any serious advisor of Robinson should have told him KO'ing Maxim would be a real long shot...
"he would have been better advised to restrict his movements to conserve energy whilst still outboxing him." This assumes he could outbox Maxim...
I will step out of the debate to just say this is a very interesting fight as there is such a wide reaction to what we are seeing. (someone...
