"My toughest fight was with Jeff Smith. (Tommy) Gibbons gave me a hard battle, but, nothing like the Smith beating. He and I have had 5 arguments and he has always been a troublesome customer. To this day I suppose he doesn't realise how near he became to flattening me......his crouching position raised havoc with my style. I just couldn't fathom his stuff. I chased him all around the ring and paid me back in full.....But I was a terrible looking mess after the battle. There's a fellow who deserves the honor of being called the "Uncrowned Champion" How good was smith, i know nothing about him
Smith is verry under rated. That was an absolutely stacked middleweight era, and there were a number of fighters who could have been dominant had they come allong a decaade or so later. Smith was one of them.
The Bayonne Globetrotter was a hellva fighter. Gene Tunney called him the craftiest of all my opponents. And that was 1924 Smith, far past his best days.
