Boston Tom McMustache: Is he a top 10 atg heavyweight??

WTF is going on here, Boggle?

 

Get the **** outta here!!! Boston Toms chronic gout and rickets never kicked in until Lucky Sambo XXX111, 'The decapitation in the Plantation'. Funny how he lasted 132 rounds before he appeared to cover his eyes from the sun. Boxing afficionado and well-known lunatic Stewart 'Stewarty' Steward was at ringside covering for the Massachussetts Weekly and had the fight scored as a draw, up until local rednecks officially stopped the fight and 'helped' Lucky Sambo to an awaiting Barn. It must have been in the winter because those rednecks had plenty of fire burning round that barn

 

Well, it's hard to say where McMoustache rates. The pool of greats becomes much larger when one takes in fictional as well as actual greats -- for every Marciano there's a Balboa .....

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there's a guy who rolls the two of them together into one:

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:deal

 

CNK only beat Sambo over 'special rules' that awarded a point to the fighters only when they scored a jab, as local authorities were trying to cancel the fight and it was thought the ruling might cause the two to be a little less violent. As we know, with these two, and Boston Tom himself, that would be the last thing either man would ever do. Sambo, as we know, was finished by the time he was 15, I do agree that the 11 year old version of him, merely a Bantamweight by todays standards (but a featherweight then) was still a formidable fighter. His power was evident at aged 10 in the fight with 250lb behemoth 'The London Lurcher' Lionel Lancet, whom he stopped with a single body/groin punch (depending on what account you read) in the first round.

Lucky Sambo was only 5'1 and was soundly outjabbed, even though he scored forty-seven knockdowns in that week and was only dropped twelve times himself. From none other than Stewarty Steward himself :deal

 

As my extensive research has proven, pounds weighed more back in the day. 162 pounds in 1892 is equal to 242 pounds today, if my conversion tables are correct.

 

Inches were longer back then too, so 5'9 is roughly equal to 6'3.

 

IMO he will never be as great as the legend that is the famous Houston Sheriff Barry " The Houston Hat" Leveson-Gower. Not only was he the poshest man to ever grace the ring he is regarded as the father of modern showmanship famously wearing a top hat in every one of his 117 bouts (his hat never once removed from his head despite being floored many times). Others also state he invented metro sexuality with his iconic pink shorts.

He fought all four "New Age Negros" that were notoriously avoided by McMushtache and Co. All of that despite paving the way for the failed legislation introducing the colour line.

Despite beating "The Windy City Wog", "The Motor City Mudface" "The Texan Tarbaby" and "The Boston Blackie" he never actually made contact with any of them. Despite numerous encounters he won every fight without ever being hit and without ever laying glove to them using only his crafty footwork and deadly faints. He famously said "My faint jab is the tool of which saves my nostrils" when describing the stench of "The Boston Blackie".

He retired at an unknown date after competing in every weight class with an admirable record of
W38
L12
D67
NC 24
He also never lost a newspaper decision in Houston.

His style of herky-jerkyness allowed him to survive many rounds where he was never hit, he had tremendous stamina and often threw as many as 9 punches a round ( unless they werent white). His legendary 3 punch jab feint combo was the inspiration behind Tysons offensive work.

"The greatest fighter to ever have worn a hat"- Willie Meehan

"They dont make Sheriffs like that anymore"- Robo Cop

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bravo

 

I politely disagree. How can you say Boston Tom and co avoided 'The New-Age Negroes'? What about the 15 exhibitons Boston Tom had with the 'Texan Tarbaby' down in Galveston? His backyard non-the-less, and Boston Tom by all accounts won 13 of them if they were to be judged as competition (Source; S 'S' S c/o Massachusetts Weekly).

If anything, the colour bar was used to the advantage of the 'New-Age Negroes' as it gave them plenty of excuses not to fight the elite of the day, Screaming Otis being the only exception (check out McMoustache-Screaming Otis XXX111 although XXV111 is pretty good in its own right)

 

@Don: You forgot to give your buddy Kally credit for helping you search through near-unreadable fragments of moudly 19th century newspaper cuttings to discover the long lost & tremendously fearsome "New Age Negros". The same "New Age Negros" that the great champion Jack Dempsey himself admitted he'd retire for several years in hiding/Hollywood to avoid their "unsurmountable challenge" if they were around in his day.

 

Credit where credit is due, you did help me rob Caytons library to find these gems.

 

I ...don't think he got his grandfather's mustache genes. :?