best of 5 using the upper original weight classes Heavy: Tom Sharkey vs George Chuvalo 175: Mike McTigue vs Sam Langford 160: George Gardner vs Lou Brouillard 147: Nonpareil Jack Dempsey vs Mysterious Billy Smith 135: Patsy Sweeney vs Arturo Gatti
Actually, you could sub Jack Delaney in at LH for the Canadian side, and bump Langford up to Heavyweight. Delaney defeated McTigue (who, interestingly, held the Canadian middleweight title for a while) by TKO4 the one time they fought.
The bigger "bull" would win here. Chuvalo beats up the tenacious Tom Sharkey probably in the same way he beat Doug Jones & Yvon Durelle. Langford KO. Brouillard.
this one is tough. sharkey had a pretty big punch, much bigger than chuvalo's, but we've seen how little that means. if he shows the kind of tenacity and workrate from around the patterson fight, chuvalo takes it
yes, i originally had delaney at lh but moved him since he'd already fought mctigue. was trying to get matchups that didn't happen.
big difference between amateurs and the pros. ask henry tillman about fighting tyson as a pro, plus gatti was much bigger as a pro than mccullough.
