A Peak Jack Sharkey In Todays HW Division

Well, what do you mean? Just bring the Sharkey from the 20s/30 win with a time machine of give him today´s possibilities - weight training, nutrition - first?

If it´s the second I guess he would be about the same size as Chambers but more skilled and a harder puncher. He would be on par with the Klitschkos I think and at his best day would stand a chance against both.

 

No way he wouldnt do to great at Heavy , if he fought at Cruiser he would be one of the top 2or 3 guys.

 

Sharkey would beat the timid Dimitrenko, but I think he'd struggle vs the Klitschko's. Even in his prime, Sharkey was an " off " and On " type of fighter with erratic performances. Jack Sharkey wasn't a power hitter, he could be intimidated, and didn't have the best chin. He could fight though.

 

Sharkey had the talent to potentialy beat any fighter around today.

Unfortunately he was a volatile fighter who often blew fights that he could have won and would have had the same ups and downs in any era.

 

He'd do the same; beat most of the fringe guys and have some good performances against 'the Elite' but wouldn't dominate IMO.

I'm saying we just get 'the best' Sharkey just before a fight and say to him 'grab your gloves we're going to 2010' and I think he can do alright.

 

He would probably do well,the division is very weak and Sharkey held his own against some very good fighters in his era.

 

Sharkey actually did well against big fighters, see Carnera, Wills, Scott, Godfrey so he should do ok up to KLits whom I think would be too good. Povetkin would be interesting as would Chambers.

 

You cant really put a hot and cold fighter from 1 era into another and ask how they'll do because if they under and over performed in their era, they'll do the same in any. At his absolute best he could pull off a few good wins, but he would never be at his best for long

 

Agreed.

Though I'd favor both Klitschko's over him.

 

david haye and most of todays heavies would KO him

 

I dont know that he could be intimidated,because if that was the case, I doubt he would have fought Godfrey,or taken on Louis when he was palpably washed up and knew it.
I agree with the rest though.

 

Sport: Old Black Wills

Monday, Oct. 25, 1926

A photograph of a wall-eyed youngster with protruding ears, a puckered mouth, and neither shirt nor collar on his thick wrinkled neck appeared on the front page of a famed daily last week under the caption "YOUTH SUPREME." The youth in question, one Jack Sharkey, had just demonstrated in a bloody bout in Brooklyn his supremacy against black Harry Wills, once known as "The Brown Panther," and long the Nemesis of Jack Dempsey. All through the fight Sharkey chopped and hacked at Wills, closed his eye, made his mouth bleed; all through the fight the referee skipped between the two saying, "Don't do that; don't do that." Wills was the offender; in every break he swung over illicit punches; he hit backhanded; he butted Sharkey with his hard, black head. Perhaps Wills only did these things from force of habit; he has long been famed in the ring for his sharp practices, as also for his tireless pursuit of a match with Dempsey. But old black Wills will pursue no more heavyweight champions; he was tired; even his foulest punches had no sting. In the 13th round, after ten warnings the referee disqualified him for fouling.
Astute, pudgy gentlemen of the sporting fraternity were stirred into a semblance of interest in 1924. Floyd Johnson, Homer Smith,
Al Roberts had been successively vanquished by some young brawny Boston Lithuanian. But, then— Johnson was a has-been, knocked out by fat Jess Willard; Smith was a trial horse, only fair; Roberts, who had ever heard of him? Astute, pudgy gentlemen relaxed; the heavyweight situation seemed unchanged. . . . Later came news of the defeat of clever Jack Renault, tough Johnny Risko at the same hands. The hands belonged to square-jawed Jack Sharkey, carried the potential power of dynamite. Binghamton-born, Boston-bred, this Lithuanian with a famed Irish name* served in the navy, has boxed professionally for but two years. In Boston, he is regarded as the next champion. Away from the ring, the hulking battler is quiet, home-loving; has two little daughters.

 

Sharkeys problem was not so much that he could be intimidated as having anger managment issues.

 

Someone[possibly RUNYON, said]," SHARKEY, is a great fighter ,from the neck down".