Greatest showboater ever

Good find!! I was looking for this set to music clip after the Calzaghe-Jones fight but couldn't find it for some reason.

 

I interviewed the great man Eddie Futch before his passing and he said in response to funniest boxers he remembers, that a guy named KO Morgan in the 40s used to do the Charleston between rounds or read newspapers on his stool or put his cornerman on the stool and refreshed them.

Gotta add Eubank, Naz, Joe Calzaghe, Roy, Ali to this list. Naz was incredible on his way up in his fights in the UK. America never really understood his cockiness and didn't react well to his antics. This kind of inhibited Naz in his U.S. fights. He fought better when the fans laughed with him. In the U.S, he wasn't as comfortable. His early fights before Kevin Kelley were incredible performances. Amazing fighter was Naz. Roy's showboating always came against overmatched comp. Doubt Roy would act like that against McClellan, Benn, Michalczewski or Tyson.

 

Ali had NOTHING on Johnson in this regard imo.

"Stop loving on me this way mister Jeffires".

"I fighting the way you did mister Corbett."

Than he go to his MANY white girlfreinds, and say something among the lines, which round do you want me to knock this chump out. And they replie, the 5th or 6th. And Johnson would do it.(Moore in 4, way before Ali)

I mean I would LOVED if the Johnson Jeff fight had sound. It would have been amazing io hear the war of words between Corbett and Johnson. And Johnson winning both the word war, and the fight at the same time lol.

 

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The Prince was the King at showboating.

 

The fighter in my avatar deserves a mention also he is neither a great - record of 60 fights, winning 30, losing 19 and drawing 13, also his record is very misleading - nor a real showboater but I tell you why he deserves to be mentioned.

His name was Johann Wilhelm Trollmann called "Rukelie" what means gypsy. He was a Sinti-German and started boxing as a pro in 1929. His style resembled that of Gene Tunney. Great technician and tactician, good footwork, very tough. He was quite good looking and with his showboating he became quite popular and even some kind of a sexsymbol. Sadly, he came around when the NAzis already started to take control over German boxing. His style was seen as a chicken style and he had to take fights where he wasn´t allowed to take a step back or he would lose. In 1933 he fought Adolf Witt for the German lhw title and was winning easily. When the decision was announced, that Trollmann won, a high-ranking Nazi entered the ring and said a gypsy can´t win and changed the decision. The audience protested so much that the Nazi had to flee and Trollmann was awarded with the decision, just to lose the title 8 days later because the German boxing board stripped it´s recognition of the fight beeing a title fight. In his next fight he had to take on Gustav Eder, one of the best German fighters around. It was one of the fights where he wasn´t allowed to take a step back. So, he bleached his hair blonde, and made his skin white with some powder, going out there, making a fool out of Eder and the Nazis everytime he had the chance while doing exactly what they wanted. He did things like that in every fight after his fight with Witt - and lost every single one of them. He was later brought into a concentration camp where he was made fun of because he was a boxer and was often used as a living punching bag by the SS guards and finally was shot in 1943/1944 - records differ there, also nobody knows the circumstances under which he was shot, but it is believed that he was hsot because he offered to much resistance when he was getting beat up.

He surely has a story to remember. There´s a film documentation about him and 2 biographies - in German though. He´s one of the tragic boxing stories of the Nazi time. And I would love to see it beeing filmed.

btw. the German boxing board just recognized him as German lhw champion very recently. They needed nearly 70 years to correct that mistake. A disgrace.

 

If you like clowning, you have to watch Jorge Paez fight.

 

Yep, and a story to remember. There´s such a difference between the popularity of Trollmann - back in the day when a boxer fought similar to Trollmann people said "he dances the Trollmann" - and at the same time beeing a victim of the Nazis. He was very forgotten for a very long time but get´s some recognition now. There´s the documentation about him, the two books and he possibly will get a memorial stone at the graveyard of Hannover, his hometown, with the honoration: "dedicated to the boxer who wasn´t allowed to win" - which would be a great title for a movie if they ever make one about him.
What´s also very ironic that he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and fought for Nazi-Germany before he had to go into the concentration camp.

 

Ali shits this in, due to sheer magnitude and popularity.

 

Ok, i'll reset then

 

Ali's best was his 'between rounds' interview with Reg Gutteridge when he fought Lubbers. :yep