Well, I have read that Nat saw the Johnson-Jeffries fight, but I don't disagree that Nat's opinion of Jeff's in prime prowess might not be worth...
"I do not doubt Fleischer had some abnormal affection for Jim Jeffries" Some one who has no doubt about something he knows nothing about is only...
I don't think there is any at all. Johnson wasn't your typical big man and Jeffries at 35 and having laid off 6 years was not up to any test at...
Louis and Marciano are being brought up. I rate both ahead of Jeffries and agree that they met tougher opposition and had on balance better...
Why did contemporaries consider Jeffries great and Willard largely a dub? Tex Rickard for example picked Jeffries over Dempsey. Truth is Willard...
I am not disputing that he reached that position. I am only reprinting the quote which is in Adam Pollack's biography.
Have you read Adam Pollack? This fight would have had to take place within a week because the boxing law was going out of effect and boxing would...
Except Adam Pollack quotes him when he won the title in 1899 as saying, "I do not bar anyone, black or white, old or young." He definitely...
Ruhlin had a draw with Jeffries, was a top contender, and fought Jeff in 1901. McVea was 17 at that point and Martin I think still shy of his...
"You've got to be carefully taught" I think that is the name of the song I referred to in an earlier post.
"today's fighters" Jeff is not fighting today. "he was tested in the fire of competition and was KO'd by a small man." As was Willard. but not...
Adam Pollack made a point that Fitz and Jeff made more money on theatrical tours than they did fighting. So they often were a bit reluctant to...
Yes. He was. He was taught so.
This is a fair argument, but it does rise or fall to some extent on if h2h match-ups are what the judgment is made on rather than performance. I...
"was Jeffries a great fighter?" Okay, and you say he wasn't because he avoided the best competition. He did avoid Johnson in 1904 and 1905, but...
