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There isn't a sizeable enough majority for me to call it a robbery. There isn't enough footage for me to call it a robbery. That's why I have to take it at face value.

And the second fight was just that, a second fight. It wasn't the first and judging the first fight of any series based on a second fight is an unreliable strategy imo.

I don't know how the fight would have gone had jersey not showboated, but it doesn't matter because he did and louis did knock him out.

 

A couple of observations.

The majority of observers clearly favoured Walcott in the first fight, but the pro Louis minority were verry vocal in arguing their case.

It is easier to go against the result, if the oppinions are more one sided e.g Schmaling Sharkey II.

Walcott was doing a lot better in the second fight, right untill he was stopped. He chose to force the fight more to impress the judges, and that cost him. This is not an unprescedented pattern.

It is hard to be sure whether Walcott was showboating, or trying to throw Louis another curve ball.

If Walcott used the strategy of the second fight in the first, he would likley have won!

 

What percentage of ringside reports would you say favoured jersey joe?

 

Good choice.

As for the thread?

Jack Johnson
Sonny Liston
Rocky Maricano

 

I don't think there's any relevance as to whether he was showboating or not. Either way he got knocked out and louis's supremacy was established.

 

Don't watch american football.

I mean the kind of supremacy where the first fight was close enough and the opinion was divided enough to warrant a rematch, yet the rematch itself ended in a knockout to the victor.