David Tua versus Jim Corbett

You may laugh, but look how many new Jeff Clark fights we found in recent years.

The guy had half his record missing until recently, and he was one of the best middleweights of his era!

 

He was no McMustache though!

 

Google “argument from personal incredulity”.

 

OK so that might be like judging the technique of the era, based on Vitally Klitschko and Roy Jones?

Successful fighters in their own right, but not representative of the technique of the period.

Oh and no, Charlie Chaplin didn’t rally walk like that!

 

Corbett had won several Silver Gloves tournaments and was a Golden Gloves winner, he was also the Heavyweight Champion of the Olympic Club, before he began his professional career.He was not some faceless tyro when he began to punch for pay.

 

A forgotten British flyweight from 100 years ago very likely has an incomplete record, because as yet no one has taken the trouble to complete it. A legendary British flyweight like Jimmy Wilde, on the other hand, has a pretty well documented record. You would think the same applies to Corbett.

The problem with your argument is it is based on supposition, ie some fighters have incomplete records, therefore Corbett's must be too. I say again, if we have no record of these missing fights, how do you know they happened at all?

And yet Jackson and Fitz now have 100+ bouts on their records, while Corbett remains stuck on 11-4-3. As has already been mentioned, Adam Pollack recently released a painstakingly researched bio of Corbett, and he didn't come up with all these missing bouts you're alluding too. Maybe he just didn't have that many fights, just like Ingemar Johansson retired after 28 bouts while some of his contemporaries had hundreds.

:good

 

Tua may have run hot and cold for reasons I can't explain but I got him here by KO