[CLIPS] Max Baer v. Tommy Farr

"Jesus. Put up your gloves or step out of HIS punching range or punch back. Or, better yet, DO ALL THREE.

Marciano had the shortest reach of any heavyweight champ ever. He was just swinging. You know how close you need to be to get hit by him? Pretty damn close. HOLD OUT YOUR ARM and odds are you'd be out of his punching range if you extended your arm

DON'T STAND RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM WITH YOUR HAND DOWN IN HIS PUNCHING RANGE."

Yeah, this truly sounds like a guy who is acknowledging that Ezzard is on the down swing of his career, rather than an actual scathing review of his boxing ability and IQ. lmao.

 

Yeah @KuRuPT , give me a confidence boost pretty please!
They're really handing it to me here!

 

lol

 

Dumb would be engaging with your "points" when everything relevant has already been said in counterpoints. Not by me. Others here have pointed out that there's such thing as context.

To paraphrase, you said Farr couldn't get away with the way he was fighting in a clip against Baer (clip of a fight he won, btw) IF he was doing it against "Witherspoon, Bowe, Wilder".

It's already been pointed out that it doesn't prove a lot, even if you could somehow be proven correct on that detail. Since Farr did what he did against a particular opponent at a particular moment and got away with it.

 

When you said "Its never too late to learn the basics of boxing," my mind immediately jumped to the actual practice of boxing.

Just like if someone said "its never too late to learn the basics of guitar," I would assume they're talking about playing the instrument.

If you're talking about some second hand learned experience of the basics, okay.

 

I thought I was clearly attempting humour with the 'Art Card biographies' post. Must have been even less funny that I'd imagine.
Sorry, there are no Art Card books that I know of. I made that up as a joke.

 

Read my next post.

I just forgot we were working with KoolKevin context.
Where learning boxing is done second hand, and not by actually doing it.

 

Tommy Farr could have given you all a severe lesson in the basics of boxing.

 

It wouldn't be fun dealing with a guy who can jab like that.
I imagine a feeling of helplessness trying to maintain distance with someone like that, and keeping up with his positioning.

 

Bowe looks just as “bad” here as Buddy Baer.

Completely nullifying his height advantage by walking forward into Cards range.

He uses a lack luster lazy guard on the inside.

A skilled SHW who knows how to use his size wouldn’t bore in with jabs with his head down walking like a zombie, would he?

(the level of criticism Baer receives ^)

 

Everyone here has second hand knowledge of boxing basics.

So when you tell someone here to learn the basics of boxing, in the context in which it was stated, one naturally takes it to mean the practice of boxing, since it’s the most sensible interpretation.