Great fighter, almost forgotten, even by boxing fans, he was a small 147 lbs, but fought most of the time way bigger fighters, he beat great/ very good fighters like: Tiger Flowers Lou Scozza Jock Malone Tommy Loughran Mickey Walker He also had great, close fights against the likes of Harry Greb.
He had solid power, was a great bodypuncher, was in almost 200 fights only knocked down once (due to exhaution to either McTigue or Moody) and has a very strong and deep resume. I don´t know why he isn´t in the HOF, when fighters like Criqui are there.
I'm pretty familiar with his record, but haven't done anything in the way of research on his style or peer reports/fight reports. He's one I'll need to check into. I believe klompton is pretty high on him as well.
Bogash was very good. Gave almost everyone tough fights. Kind of a MW gatekeeper/stumbling block. He was one of several fighters of the 10s and 20s like Gibbons, Malone, Bartfield, Smith etc who was really too small for MW and too big for WW. Had there been a JMW division in those days he likely would have been a champ.
Yeah, I know Burt ( not iron, he got KO´d sometimes, also went down against not so hard hitters like Dundee, but of course he had a very good chin), but his resume, while very good looking (just for the numbers), is pretty thin for a HOF´r IMO, Bogash beat the better fighters, this was no diss on the tough French, I just took one fighter as an example, where I think Bogash deserves it at least as much as he...
Burt meant it literally. Criqui fought with a piece of iron for a chin after the first World War. As for Bogash, he has big names on his win record, but he beat them while they were not so famous and did not manage to win the big fights that truly mattered. Tiger Flowers also clearly got the better of him in their series. He just never rose to the occasion and as a result is somewhat obscured.
Thx for clarify that, my English isn´t the best and sometimes, I don´t fully understand sarcasm for example! :thumbsup Flowers had always much problems against Bogash, I think in their 3rd encounter most people thaught Bogash deserved the win (he also knocked Flowers down 3 or 4 times). And nobody shutout Bogash or had it easy with him...
