Info on Jimmy Clabby ..

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  1. he grant

    he grant Historian/Film Maker

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    Recently read this and realized I know zero about this fighter .. very curious ..

    “Jimmy Clabby is the best boxer I have ever met. He is far and away superior to Frank Klaus, Jack Dillon and any other whom I have met in the ring. He is the foxiest boxer…he and Freddie Welsh are the only men in boxing who can get both hands around your waist and pull you into him in clinches. You cannot do a thing with him.
    “Out of the clinches he stands off at a peculiar position and then suddenly he bangs you, and I can assure you he can hit…he hit me so hard in the sixteenth round that the sound of the gong was the sweetest music I have ever listened to…Clabby beat me and I think he will whip any other middleweight.” –George Chip, Pittsburgh Press 12/21/1914
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    High accolades coming from former middleweight king GEORGE CHIP, who by the time he made this statement had already fought the aforementioned FRANK KLAUS and Jack Dillon, plus Jeff Smith, Leo Houck, BUCK CROUSE and many others. He wasn’t alone in his praise of the fighter they called “The Indiana Wasp,” Jimmy Clabby. Former heavyweight champ Jim Jeffries called him the best middleweight he’d ever seen, and master boxer Mike Gibbons marveled at his skill and suffered two defeats and a draw against Clabby before he was finally able to find a way to defeat him in their fourth and final match.
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    Clabby was one of many title claimants during the 1910’s; considered one of the toughest and most talent-rich eras in middleweight history. It is unfortunate that he pulled up stakes and fought exclusively out of Australia from 1915 to late 1921, which deprived fans the chance to see him test his skills and toughness against HARRY GREB. In fact Clabby and Les Darcy are the only great middleweights of the era who never met Greb in the ring.

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  3. louis54

    louis54 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Undoubtedly a terrific fighter , to say the least !!!