Can Stanley Ketchel be considered one of the most durable fighters of all time?

word on the street is he is dead. don't mean to start rumors though. you know my motto, if you are going to talk bad about someone, sit next to me

 

Good points, I would say yes he was and time would have proved it more if he had not been so tragically cut down. Going 32 rounds with a world champ 30 lbs. heavier and another 32 and 20 rounds with huge (20-30 lbs) heavier tells you all you need to know. Ketchel dying at age twenty-four-he had so many more fights in him.

FWIW (from Wikipedia) he faced four hall of famers during his career, some of history's best middleweights, light heavyweights, and heavyweights included among them. Nat Fleischer, the late ring historian and founding editor of The Ring magazine, considered Stanley to be the greatest middleweight in history.

 

Stanley Ketchell really did not weigh 170 pounds for his bout wuith Jack Johnson in 1909... I have read many articles of that period that claimed Ketchell,{ a natural 154 pound,fighter] was less then 160 lbs...I have an old picture of Ketchell before the bout dressed in a long coat, wearing high boots,making him look larger.Ketchell was an animal in his prime tremendous and cruel two handed puncher, fearing no one..Only a killers gun in 1910,ko'd Stanley forever...What a fighter he was to everyone that saw the "Michigan Assassin", Stanley Ketchel....