If Pierre Fourie could go the distance twice with Foster, Loughran, who went the route with, and beat Max Baer, would have no trouble. Tommy by dec.
Smith's form only held for a year. Moran had beaten no one of note when he fought Smith he improved markedly later. Langford ? Many thought...
Delusions of divinity?:patsch
We agree Jeffries was matched competitively early on,.I have gone into some detail about his opponents I think. I said Jeffries met ONE top man...
Woodman also issued this challenge whilst in the States. Lewis challenging Langford reinforces my thesis, Lewis was a middleweight.
There are many kinds of courage ,and also cowardice.Jeffries was physically courageous , morally I don't think so.
Fact is he ducked his standout challenger because, he said he," would not take a chance on losing his title to a black man, " what would you...
Woodman threw out a challenge on Langford's behalf, he excluded Jeffries, sorry if my wording confused you.
I can think of a few who would qualify nicely for public execution.:yep
Ruhlin went 20rds to a draw in one of the fights with Jeffries. Kennedy,and Munroe are not reliable yardsticks to measure Jeffries effectiveness...
Joe Woodman, Langford's manager put Sam's challenge in the newpapers, it was while Jeffries was still active as a fighter, so my point is valid....
On what do you base this deduction?
Langford raved about how Jeffries was going to beat the crap out of Johnson too, he could not have been more wrong. Langford said he would fight...
