Second round. "Gentleman Jim" versus the tough Australian Les Darcy. Corbett outboxed the fiery Firpo in the first round. Boxing against Darcy, Who defeated a game Henry Cooper in the first round. Please give reason for prediction. Please give predicted result. Second Round. 12 Rounds.
I am open to being swayed by any Darcy fanatics on this one. But at this stage, i dont see how. Corbett was a bona fide world champion. He was KOd by a middleweight, though it wasnt any middleweight, it was the greatest middleweight ever. Darcy 's best win was probably over George Chip, who was coming off a newspaper decision over Harry Greb (his second). Still, according to boxrec at least (my failing memory suggests otherwise) greb had never really fought a bonafide heavyweight. In any case, he certainly had never fought one as good as Corbett. I think that Corbett is to big, too strong and too fast for Darcy. He knocks him out by the 9th.
Within the past few months, there were a number of threads. Where posters were stating how good Darcy was. This is there chance to see how he would stack up in a head to head situation.
I don't see why.... and people here are overestimating Corbett's weight advantage, Jim was more like a Light-Heavyweight.