1930's & 1940s FOOTAGE TREASURE TROVE HERE - DEMPSEY, BAER, FARR, LOUIS,WALCOTT ETC

Though I'd post this link which may be of interest to fans of the 1930's/1940 heavyweight scene

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=13877

- contains assorted footage of Maxie Baer, Tommy Farr, Joe Louis, Jersey Joe Walcott and a bit on Dempsey - all sorts on here training and sparring footage, brief interviews, fight footage and candid out of ring footage too - lots i hadn't seen before - have a look and let me know what you think.

PS for the non-british fans on here try to ignore the ridiculous spiffing commentary on some of it :good

 

cheers TurpinR - yeah Farr was tough rugged and skilled too - his fight with Joe Louis is one of my favourites - real tough fight - one of the best match ups in Louis career I think - just out of interest how do you think he rates against the likes of Cockell, Henry Cooper, Bugner, Bruno, Lewis (and London haha)? - by the way my grandad uses to drink with Brian London's dad Jack London when he lived in Blackpool (my grandad always used to say his dad Jack was a much better fighter - Brian was just a thug)

Thanks for the other links there GreatA - your youtube collection is pretty amazing too - in fact I think you've done more for true fight fans than ESPN, HBO, SKY Sports or any other sports network in history - keep up the good work - also think you must be super knowledgable would be interested to get your views on some of the greats maybe your top 10 heavys or P4P

cheers aswell He Grant - (haha what does that mean by the way 'He Grant'?

 

oh also - greata (and anyone else) - but particularly greata coz i know you must be a bit of a collector - if you haven't already - check my thread from yesterday called 'gene tunney spars jim corbett on film!' or something like that - think you'd be interested in that - maybe you could see if you could add it to your youtube collection somehow?