An unbeaten Cooney , coming along just as Tunney retired . He's in the mix with Schmeling , Sharkey etc . Any chance of him picking up the title before the Brown Bomber comes along ?
He'd be taken out by Baer and most probably outwitted and boxed by Schmeling He'd beat Carnera and Sharkey imo Then the Brown Bomber comes and pummels everyone
From 1926 until1935 the following were top ten ranked at one time or another. Harry Persson Unknown Winston Tuffy Griffiths Charley Massari Natie Brown Eddie Mader Ford Smith Patsy Perroni Stanley Poreda Primo Carnera Don McCorkindale Otto Von Porat Phil Scott Jim Maloney Vittorio Campolo Walter Neusel I would expect Cooney to beat most of those.
Apart from Schmeling but that was a slight blip lol . But seriously , Yes George ,I can see him absolutely smashing some of the names in the 30 s . I'm not sure Carnera get s out of the 2 ND Round tbh , and Sharkey could be taken out fast . Love to see Gerry go for it with Baer !!
Not exactly an intimidating lot to be truthful ! Yep I can see Cooney taking some of those out of the picture Preeti fast ..
About as well as he did in his own era, give or take a fight or two, because of his problems outside the ring. Could he have held the title back then? Perhaps with a bit of luck, but if he did he would have lost it very quickly, and then crawled into a whisky bottle.
Yes he mostly certainly could do it, and likely would pick up a strap. Depending on his mind set after winning, he could hold on to it for a bit, but eventually loses to Louis for sure and maybe Max. People forget, that part of his alcohol issue was losing to Holmes and a depression crutch kind of thing. If he wins a belt, he might not sink into that lifestyle as quickly as he did. BTW, the best Sharkey loses to the best Gerry.
Pretty simple Jaws; to get from point A to point B, you must have guzzling in yr engine. So, however much guzzlin Calamity Cooney has will determine how far he can drive on his trip. How far he will go. It is simple supply and demand economics. For, after all, we are not communists.
