JEFFRIES V CHUVALO?

Mismatch I would say, and a false analogy if one was intended.

 

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Jeffries the far greater fighter. Again we are pitting an ATG heavyweight champion who expert wrote was one of hwt boxings best vs a contender who no expert at any time considered an ATG fighter. Jeffries mauls Chuvalo for a stoppage within 12 rounds.

 

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Yes but Chuvalo would not have got to them late.

He would have lost like he generally did when he stepped up.

You say that the top contenders of Jeffries era were small and old relative to those of other eras, but that it all that they would need to be to beat Chuvalo.

 

Somewhere Jeffries is turning in his grave!

I would even go as far as to say that this comparison is grossly disrespectful!

 

Chuvalo want even tough in the same way that Jeffries was!

Yes he could take a careers worth of punishment, but you could get his respect, and he was often content to cruise to a decision loss.

Jeffries was trying to win for every second of every fight, even if he had one eye hanging out on the optic nerve.

He had that X factor which other great champions had.

 

You are not putting him up against Norton, or McCall, or Schmeling.

You are putting him up against somebody a level or two below those men.

This is more like putting Ali up against Johnny Paycheck.

 

This is comparing a really tough guy to an all time great. Chuvalo was an iron Man, but he lost 99% of the time whenever he fought rated fighters, and often against second tiered fighters. He lost to Corletti. He lost to Pete Rademacher, Folley, Patterson, Terrell, Bonavena, Mathis, Ellis and many others besides the greats that beat him. No way George would beat Jeff.

 

Even if Jeffries was as bad as his detractors try to make out, it would be hard to see how you could favor Chuvalo over him!