David Tua versus Jim Corbett

De la Hoya made weight for the Pac fight too. Was he a natural 147lber at that stage?

 

If I show that the William Edwards book is very different from modern boxing, will you admit you were wrong about Corbett's skills, and give up this silly fight against reality?

 

I found the Waterstones book, guys. It's Ned Frackin' Donnelly.

https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-noble-english-art-of-self-defence/various-authors/9781782273196

Though judging by the pudgy, mustached wrestleboxers the cover, it was probably ghost-written by the Super Mario Brothers.

 

Sounds like you've come down with a case of sluggish schizophrenia, comrade.

We'd better get you to a hospital before you start babbling about Jim Corbett having a jab.

 

No, because it would just be one book.

If it turned out to be very similar, would you admit that you were wrong about boxing having advanced?

 

Billy Conn I thought!

 

We can argue about the semantics until we are blue in the face.

If you wan't to say that Byrd was a natural cruiser weight at the age of 37, and that he overreached by draining down to 175, then I will not go to great lengths to contradict you.

He obviously convinced himself that it was a good idea at some point.

The last time that Tommy Loughran made that weight he was 27 to give it some context, and Ezzard Charles was done with it at 28.

 

Corbett was stopped by one left hook to the belly from a 157lbs man,which kind of makes me think Tua might have an outside chance of causing him some discomfort along the way.

 

There are no semantics to be argued. You made a ridiculous comment, and I called you out on it.

Whether or not Byrd himself thought it was a good idea to boil down to that weight is irrelevant.

 

Or a dozen losses ...

 

Conversely, I am convinced that some people watch the just-posted footage of Corbett and Fitzsimmons and convinced themselves that the two stick men hopping around in herky jerky fashion are in fact much more powerful than they look and that they are engaging in secret lost techniques that the grainy film doesn't allow us to appreciate. It's not a recreation of a flamingo mating ritual, it's the "Philly Power Punch" drill, lost in 1910 ...

 

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