A Superheavyweight from the 30's who never made it big (Video!)

Dont forget that Adamek became a top contender, Jones Jr won aworld title., tarver is a top 10 fighter sometimes

 

This guy's like Wlad with a touch of cerebral palsy.


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They probably were rank beiginners at the time.
As I said earlier, I suspect the bigger heavyweights got a lot of publicity early on and were mismanaged and never got chance to develop. That still happens.

 

Yeah pretty much. In those times it was easier for a light heavy to go up in weight because all they had to do was put on a few lbs if any to their natural weight. Most light heavies were fighter who got too big for Middleweight or were a skinny heavyweight. The money was all at heavyweight so I'm not surprised that many heavyweight contenders/champions were light heavies. Think about it a fighter could be making a lot more money and only put on 5-10lbs which was probably their natural weight anyway. Archie Moore was 190lbs naturally when he was fighting at light heavy.

 

If I took some footage of Vitally Klitchko, and digitally edited it to make it look like he was a fighter from the 30s, you would say that he looked rake a rank amateur.

 

If he is serious in that shadow box session he did in the video I gotta say, he looks like a guy that has no idea of what he is doing.

 

You are half right here.

Some of the best fighters in history, have thrown the footwork book out of the window at times.

 

A few. But only the more skilled ones.

 

Good post. It's unfortunate that some of the more regular contributors here don't seem to have a firm grasp of this stuff. I think they would appreciate and respect modern boxing of the past 50 years much, much more if they did.

 

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This current undefeated title challenger is slower, doughier and less coordinated than that 30s SHW. Probably would have fared just as bad if not worse in the 30s.

 

Dosen't look like he knows how to use his height like lewis or klitschko

 

I think what modern students of boxing dont recognize about old shadow boxing film is the old school "arm cycling motion" exercises that were very much on trend back in the day.

They knew how to punch correctly and that was demonstrated on bags. Shadow boxing concentrated on defensive techniques. Much film shows how this awkward over arm punching is used in shadow boxing. This is an excersize not an actual punching technique.

Many champions shape up like this on film.

This developed the muscle memory for the now obsolete technique of arm cycling parry. A cross over from the bare knuckle days which was part relevent in boxing until gloves got too big.