Barbados Joe Walcott vs. Mickey Walker

Lavigne didn't out-fight Joe. Well, I suppose you could say he outfought an out of form (I've heard he had a pretty significant injury) Joe in the rematch, but the first fight was fixed from the beginning, all parties involved. Walcott won a good 10 of the 15 rounds, but if there was no KO the fight automatically went to Lavigne.

Anyways, I'd wager Walker would go the Hudkins route and opt to out-box Walcott. He would succeed.

 

All the **** I read back in the day points otherwise. I totally forget the injury, in fact it may've been something to do with his legs. Ask Senya to dig those articles up for you. You guys are better at finding them than me. The general consensus seemed to be that Walcott was definitely not in the best of form, at least by those in the know at the time. I've seen the other articles, too, which are probably the ones you saw. I find it very hard to believe that Lavigne could out-fight an in-shape Walcott.

As for the Hudkins point, I didn't know he was carrying him. I'd wager if there was more footage of Walker we'd probably see a lot more of his versatility, though.

 

Is that what it was? Just weight-making, flat out? I guess I was confusing his ailments for the two fights.

I don't know enough about that (haven't read much from him outside of the Walcott fights). I do know that he was a good deal bigger than Lavigne, though.

Well, I think it's quite possible that Walcott flat out forces him to do so. Then again, if this bout's at Welterweight, I don't know if I even would favour Walker, as I tend to think he hit his full stride at Middle.

 

Walker.

 

This could get exciting.

 

i gotta go with walker. relentless, furiously strong, nearly as good a hitter as walcott.

 

I would suggest that Walcott benefits if the fight is at welterweight, while a middleweight or catchweight setting might favour Walker.

 

A bit of both. Walcott was never much bigger than a welterweight even when he fought at middleweight, and he was able to make that weight prety much throughout his career.

Setting the ***ht at 147 would definitely help his cause. If we set it at a catchweight of 154, then there would be more Walker options.

 

They both have great power I believe,... hard question this, I've seen how FAST Walker was as WW but I have no idea of Walcotts speed was. I think I will probably listen to those who saw both fight. As far as I know, Walcott was rated higher (please correct me if I'm wrong),,,,, so I will respect their judgement,.... Walcott on points 15.

 

Wasn't Walcott just 5 foot 1 inches ?