I don't see the criticism of Jeff's defenses against his white opponents making much of a case. Sharkey, Corbett, Ruhlin, and Fitz were...
This is a good point. I think it speaks to Jeff's lack of effective defense. The limited film shows a guy who looks pretty wide open to me,...
"His own brother threw in the towel." That is how Dempsey remembered it in his 1959 autobiography. All the ringside reports agree that he was...
I wouldn't, but it does depend on what you consider "greatness" to be. Jackson was certainly a "great" political leader in the sense of being...
"At that point, Dempsey still wasn't eating for days." The newspaper articles covering the Dempsey-Flynn fight indicate it was a big event in...
Dempsey "was a novice" But you have been using a novice fight against Choynski to score against Jeffries. Dempsey wasn't really a novice when he...
"Ed Dunkhorst was a bum." Well, okay, but kind of harsh. Hard to see a claim that anyone did better against Ed than Fitz when the big guy had to...
"Greb was 27 years old dude. Fitz was 39." Which I take it you assume means Greb would beat Fitz. As I pointed out, Fitz from 1890 to 1905 only...
"Harry Greb . . . was known to take out bigger men." And Fitz wasn't? Or Choynski, who knocked out Jack Johnson? How many rounds of Corbett...
"Fitz nearly stopped Jeffries in their second fight" Actually, he caused a lot of facial damage. I don't think Jeff was ever off his feet or in...
Just on Finnegan. An unworthy challenger, although I thought this was one of those fights which at first was supposed to be an exhibition, but...
Why can't Gibbons out box Jeffries? I just think Jeff goes to the body and I don't see Gibbons having an answer. He just isn't big enough and...
"It is completely plausible that Fitz most likely would have beaten him had he been prime. This is just undeniable." It might be plausible (it...
Tunney did lose to a middleweight. Not almost. Dempsey was knocked down 9 times by a middleweight, and a mediocre one at that. The smallest...
"prime doesn't matter" It doesn't in the sense that A being in his prime and B not being in his prime doesn't prove that A is better than B or...
