Eddie Machen KO 8 Nino Valdes 1956 Youtube

Cool.

 

Thanks for uploading this.

A very impressive performance by Machen. I can easily understand why many observers felt he was the real heavyweight champion in 1957 and 1958. I wonder if Floyd could have handled a young Machen.

 

I saw it. What impressed me was the way he went to the body after stunning Valdes with a one-two to the head.

 

Never knew that, have you ready his biography or something?

 

another example of how the modern sized heavyweights did not pan out at a time when shorter heavyweights kept their weight down.
It is a short clip but even so machen looks razor sharp here, pin point. nino is game and strong but overcome by the speed and angles presented to him by machen.

 

I admire the hell out of Eddie Machen...I cringe when I see the Johansson destruction, but never fail to be impressed even with a losing performance in his fight with Liston. Eddie was ahard luck kid who didn't gtet the big breaks. When it was raining soup he'd be standing out there with a knife and a fork..if he got half a girl, he'd get the half that eats...if he...ah, you get the picture..the guy had no luck..still that Valdez ko looked great..what potential the moody Mr. Machen had..and I think he was better than Zora Folley..despite going 0-1-1 with him, and would have at his very best, given Muhammad Ali an interesting evening and would have at least survived to the final bell.

 

I've yet to see a film of Valdes where he's looking good.
Maybe the Charles fight or the 2nd Moore fight are out there ?

He had a big reputation here in the UK. In the gyms and in the ring. He doesn't look too hot on film though. Or the ones I've seen here lately anyway.