10 rounds pitting the Sailor against the three inch taller but twenty pounds lighter middleweight champion emeritus in a matchup of primed Ring Mag Top 100 Punchers (how many of those have there been, I wonder? :think) This can't have been anything other than ferocious.
I know very little about this one aside from it seems to have been something of a surprise that Sharkey won, and that McCoy was on top in a big way in the third and maybe should have closed the show. No footage to my knowledge.
Motionless pics even would be great. Anything on the Kid, period? The only video I can dredge up is of an unrelated wrestler and an unrelated mandolin player. :twisted: Also, this is tops: In the old days, when no films of an opponent were available for study, fighters often hired men who had sparred with or fought against their upcoming foe. McCoy and his entourage kidnapped big Bob Armstrong, who was a frequent sparring partner of “Sailor Tom”, and took him prisoner to McCoy’s camp to find out about Sharkey’s strengths and weaknesses. Armstrong was so angered by this act that he fed McCoy incorrect information. The result was that McCoy lost his bout against Sharkey.
Proof, if proof be need be, that boxing was better in ye olden times. Kid McCoy seems to have been a bit of a gypsy, travelling from here to there to get fights. He was on the road a fair bit.