He knocked Erne out and Gans as well if believe that was on the level. Who’s the best lightweight you see him knocking out?
Erne was at a catchweight of course. He looked ok but same day catchweight weight-cuts in that era were no joke.
“I never aim to hurt a man more than I have to,” offered Gans in the build up to the Britt fight, a shocking admission for one of the most successful fighters in history, among the hardest hitting punchers of his generation, by now one of the best finishers of any. “I feel around for two or three rounds, size up the enemy and when I have the problem figured out I say to myself, ‘I’ll let this last eight or ten rounds to give the public an exhibition and then I’ll get this fellow.’ I have made mistakes. I have miscalculated and some times a fight has gone twenty rounds with the decision a draw when I have had it all figured out that I was the winner.” Love this from Gans.
