Jim Jeffries v Jess Willard?

janitor · Jan 1, 2015

mcvey said: ↑

Earned a rematch?If so why take 3 years to give him one?
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In fairness, Jeffries took a long time out due to injury after the Corbett fight.
That was a big factor.

After Jeffries, Corbett had 1 fight in 3 years ,[with Kid McCoy],which is generally considered a frame up. How had he earned a rematch?
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If a challenger is ahead on the score cards, and the champion is saved a by a stoppage late in the fight, then that would usually be seen as good grounds for a rematch.

As for the McCoy fight, in the absence of solid evidence that it was fixed, Corbett would have been rated on the assumption that it was not.
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