Boxers who would be the best barroom brawlers?

Exactly.
The guy would routinely try to gouges eyes out in a boxing match. I think he used to joke when anyone mentioned they'd seen Lou Nova "Oh, yeah, how's his eye ?" ... or it could have been another opponent.
He did this routinely. Not just occassionally or in moments of 'lost control' (as Tyson might).
This was his version of a sporting contest.

So God knows what he would do in a street fight.
Or a bar fight .... on his home turf ... in his bar.

Apparently he had a pet bear at his bar that he keep chained up and would beat up as a training gimmick. He also boxed a kangaroo and wrestling an octopus.
... In the days when animal rights/welfare/protection hadn't quite caught on.

 

Tyson either ran or walked to his jeep and drove away while Mitch Green tore the wing mirror off.



Tyson said "I was scared".

Either way, it's a very overrated incident.
Green was an idiot and we all know Tyson was no saint.

 

:good

I'm no expert on the John L Sullivan era myself.
Charley Mitchell, Jake Kilrain, Peter Jackson .... I've heard of them guys but I haven't read a great deal about them.

 

Cool read anyone else got tales of boxers in street fights like this?

Most of you probably already know about Hagler getting bottled by Wigfall and rolling under a car.

Tony Galento laid a cop out with a single punch years after he retired, a right hook, when asked about it Galento smiled and said "Only suckas lead wid der right". He also KO'd Jackie Gleason after heckling his stand up Gleason told him to go outside where Galento knocked him out cold with a single punch.

 

rocky marciano, no matter how hard he got hit he hit you back harder

 

Never heard that before. Is that story about Duran true? did it happen in his earlier days on in panama or in the US? would have thought it would be big news if it was when he became well known?

 

No. This supposed incident is a myth. Never happened.

 

Jack Dempsey
John L Sullivan
Roberto Duran
Rocky Graziano
Carmen Basilio
Gene Fullmer
Sonny Liston
George Foreman
Stanly Ketchel
Terry Mcgovern

In no Particular order.
I like the lighter guys in bar fights as they are faster.
To many to list.

 

Didnt Duran himself claim that he broke his finger from knocking down a horse? still, thats a cool story. it does sound like something Duran would do.

theres one of him also where he was attacked and he beat the guy up and carved his name in the guys face with a knife in case he wanted to get him later. dunno if its true but it shows what Duran was...