David Tua vs Tony Galento

Those are still mostly 1 minute training clips of a guy who is notorious for bringing his training down to a "comic strip level"

Did you forget that or something?

 

No didnt forget,been watching boxing for 55 years or so and did it for 18,have a pretty comprehensive collection of films and a good library on the subject.I think I'm up to speed.Galento was a slow footed ,slow punching crude left hooker who had f*ck all else save a decent chin.He was briefly a contender in a very poor era .No need to spend any more time on this,or you.

 

Tua is 1-3 against guys ranked in the top 10 the same year he was. His only win coming against Hasim Rahman in a fight he was losing all but 1 rd. Galento is 1-1 with a win coming in a fight he was dominating.

 

Why was it a poor era? Buddy Baer, Max Baer, Joe Louis, Nathan Mann, Tommy Farr, Maxie Rosenbloom, Jim Braddock, Bob Pastor, Lou Nova, Max Schmeling, and Al Ettore were pretty solid fighters. Maybe not all of them were great but solid contenders at the very least.

 

Galento was ranked in
1937 That year
4.Lovell
5.Galento
6.Adamick
9.Toles
10.Lenglet

1938 That year
4.Galento.
5. Rosenbloom
6.Harvey
7.Burman
8.Toles
9.Dorazio

1939 That year
6.Paycheck
7.Burman
8.Barlund
9.Toles
If you don't know the 30's was a poor era for heavyweights then perhaps you should take up another sport to follow?

 

Galento was ranked in
1937 That year
4.Lovell
5.Galento
6.Adamick
9.Toles
10.Lenglet

1938 That year
4.Galento.
5. Rosenbloom
6.Harvey
7.Burman
8.Toles
9.Dorazio

1939 That year
6.Paycheck
7.Burman
8.Barlund
9.Toles
If you don't know the late 30's was a poor era for heavyweights then perhaps you should take up another sport to follow?
Compare it to the names in the ratings during Tua's 8 years as a ranked contender.

 

In 1939 you have:

Louis
1. Galento
2. Pastor
3. Nova
4. Farr
5. Schmeling

All of who you omit to mention.

That strikes me as a pretty good year to be #1 in!

 

Galento was ranked in
1937 That year
4.Lovell
5.Galento
6.Adamick
9.Toles
10.Lenglet

1938 That year
4.Galento.
5. Rosenbloom
6.Harvey
7.Burman
8.Toles
9.Dorazio

1939 That year
6.Paycheck
7.Burman
8.Barlund
9.Toles

Braddock wasnt ranked in the 3 years Galento was , neither was Ettore or Buddy Baer, and Max Baer was only ranked in 1 of the 3 years [ 38]

If you don't know the 30's was a poor era for heavyweights then perhaps you should take up another sport to follow?

 

In1939 Schmeling was 34 years old he had been destroyed by Louis in 1 round a year earlier the fact that he was still number 5 illustrates the paucity of talent! Farr was number 4,and he had lost his last 5 fights! Again ample evidence of the lack of depth in the division!
That leaves you with the 39 versions of Nova,Pastor, and Galento where do you think they would rank in the years Tua was in the top ten?

 

Not really, it is what you would expect when a #1 contender had lost to the champion, but had not lost since.

You no as well as I do that most of those fights could easily have gone his way.

The very fact that Tua was in the top ten, is enough to imply that they could have done as well or better.

 

No,Farr only claimed to win the Braddock fight and thats what he told my Dad.Schmeling hadn't been the number 1 contender for 2 years!

 

How?

 

You do realize that the 1930s was an entire 10 year decade right? To fight in an era doesn't mean you have to be ranked.

 

What exactly was your purpose for omitting the other fighters ranked? There are so many red flags with your post.