who wins this prime for prime middleweight war and it would be a war. two hard hitters and game opponents.i like zale here though it could be a toss up.
Different kettle of fish . Tony Zale, pre-war, would have destroyed Gene Fullmer at his best, most certainly...Zale at his peak was a nonster two handed body puncher, who was as tough as Fullmer, but twice the puncher. No way Fullmer lasts the 15 round bout.
Read too much ringside coverage of prime Zale at his best blasting away Georgie Abrams not to pick him over lackluster Fullmer. http://news.google.com/newspapers?i...AAAAIBAJ&pg=6780,3976326&dq=zale+abrams&hl=en
Interesting article S, you posted on the Zale/Georgie Abrams fight. Abrams who fought Ray Robinson to a controversial "loss" in 1947 was a helluva middleweight, who fought a PRIME 23 year old Charley Burley to a draw in 1940...Abrams at his best was a handful for anyone of the middleweights since his time. I saw Georgie give Marcel Cerdan a hell of a fight in MSG, in 1946... Georgie Abrams would have licked Fullmer handily were they to have fought...Some of our greatest fighters due to timing etc, never won a title. Abrams was one of the best untitled fighters in my lifetime....Should be in the HOF...
Thanks Burt Georgie Freedom Abrams had a big fan in Gene Tunney too. Heda licked Fulmer as you say, too much in his arsenall!