ATG FLYWEIGHT TOURNIE: SEMI-FINAL 2 - Jimmy Wilde KO10 Benny Lynch

Ouchie. Good luck calling this one everybody. Benny Lynch stopped number three seed Pascual Perez in the QF and finds himself up against number two seed Jimmy Wilde as his reward in the semi. Feels like a the final.

Benny Lynch (seeded six) was a puncher. Not a darkening one, but nor just a stinging one, as Jackie Brown would no doubt attest after swallowing a flush, trapping right hand in the first round of their mid-1930s contest for a strap. Brown got up but he was never again in the fight. Lynch now deployed his left-hook, an even better punch, and Brown was sent to the canvas thrice more in the first. Keeping count of the knockdowns in the second round is difficult; the referee finally rescued the hapless Brown and Lynch had arrived. Elite flyweights Pat Palmer and Syd Parker followed in the trail of destruction, both succumbing to stoppages, the former falling short in a crack at Lynch’s strap. Despite his dominance, the title picture remained confused. Lynch righted it early in 1937 when he bested Small Montana, the only other man on the planet with a claim to the flyweight championship. Their fight was not one-sided. Montana was perhaps the only man to really stretch the primed flyweight Lynch and according to the United Press report he stretched him all the way to the final round where their toe-to-toe battle was settled in the Scotsman’s favor.

He swaggered in the ring and launched sudden two-fisted attacks that sometimes seemed to have no end in front of crowds of forty-five thousand. He had it all.

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Jimmy Wilde - what's to say? I will point out that it's what he did at bantamweight that makes him truly extraordinary; that his flyweight title claim was only semi-recognised although it was he himself, arguably, that brought the division some needed heft; that he struggled with Tancy Lee - and that the division was nothing like as strong as the one Gonzalez inhabited. All of that said, the astonishing things Wilde did bantamweight and featherweight, he tended to weigh in as a flyweight (or smaller) anyway. Form is form and the astonishing punching power of Wilde (seeded 2) barracked his. How to pick against him?

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Who will win under the following rules?

15 round fight.
1950s referee.
8oz boxing gloves.

Cast your vote and explain yourself in a post below! You have 3 days.

 

Yeah, I like Wilde, big booming shots turning rounds on their heads, his weird, difficult style buying openings as Lynch tries to surround him, a general melee descending into a jab and return before Lynch runs into bad trouble trying to turn the tide.

Makes the bell though, in a losing effort.

 

Wilde zipping away with this...

 

Jimmy Wilde turned the extraordinary trick of knocking Benny Lynch out after 10 rounds of hard boxing. While Lynch had been doing well on the cards there was a feeling the tide had turned after a flash knockdown in the ninth, the result of Wilde uppercuts up close. But it was a darting, winging right hand that did the damage on the Scotsman in the final seconds of the tenth. Lynch seemed at first just wrapped in the ropes but upon untangling himself with the count at 8 his legs gave way and although up at ten, the referee considered the count complete. It was some minutes before Lynch's legs seemed under him.

Jimmy Wilde progresses to the final, where he will meet Midget Wolgast.