This content is protected This is my nominee for ugliest title fight of all time, but with context it kind of makes sense. Apparently, O'Brien only agreed to the fight on the condition that Burns doesn't knock him out. When they went to shake hands in the center of the ring come fight night, Burns told O'Brien that the deal was off, leading to what you see here.
Honestly the only entertaining part about this fight is when Jeffries is so sick of trying to break up the clinches between these two that he just decides to bore in himself to break them up This content is protected
He’s probably pushing 260 here, in the Burns-Squires fight he looks even bigger. That must’ve been the peak of his retirement overindulgence in booze and food. However, I’ve also came across a Klompton post on one of the older threads here where he says that Jeffries dwarfs pretty much everyone he’s on film with; particularly in the Corbett-Fitzsimmons film.
