This is from the New York Times, July 6, 1919, page 20 JACK DEMPSEY, NEW HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION, ANNOUNCES HE WILL DRAW THE COLOR LINE....
"Dress that up how you want" Who's dressing it up? I posted that Jeffries revealed himself as a crudely overt racist. Isn't that direct...
The interesting fact here is that Jeffries' public statements define him as a crudely overt racist, but "Dempsey and Jeffries are criticized for...
Your three points are factually correct, but it seems to me not all that persuasive. "Jeffries chin is untested against men of that size" But...
"I've sparred with men both smaller and larger than me" So you are certain your conclusions from these sparring sessions are valid for Fitz and...
"Excluding Jeffries comeback fight, the average weight of his opponents was 182 lbs" Well, yes, but excluding the fights with Fitz and Choynski,...
There are a quite a number of fighters who were never stopped in their primes.
What about Holmes and Madigan. "There never was a horse that couldn't be rode. There never was a rider who couldn't be throwed."
I pick Louis. *Can't wait for Burt on this one.
Barbados Joe Walcott.
"Dempsey here is too wild. He found himself being countered by Fulton so Ali would have no trouble catching Jack clean as he bored in."...
1--my point with Braddock (and Uzcudun) is that however tough they were, there is no point in giving Baer credit for power when he failed to ko...
The issue of this thread, I thought, was Baer vs Jeffries, not Johnson vs Jeffries. I didn't notice one expert who rated Baer above Jeffries, and...
"his power was wicked and puverizing when his shots hit their targets" Not exactly the issue, though. The question is what is the evidence Baer...
But let's get to the nitty gritty. What does the record book actually say about the relative power of these two men. Well, one thing is clear....
