Jimmy McLarnin's resume

For me, Mclarnin has the best resume along with Greb. One of them has the most hall of famers, too.

Leonard wasn't at his peak when Mclarnin beat him.

Also, that impressive KO of Al Singer is on film too.

 

"A TKO win against pre-retirement Benny Leonard" ??

 

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That bout was in 1932.

 

Eh. We all make mistakes some time.

Doesn't detract from Jimmy mclarnin either!

 

Louis (Kid) Kaplan, Billy Wallace, Sid Terris, Ray Miller (1 of 2), Sammy Mandell (2 of 3), Ruby Goldstein, Young Jack Thompson, Al Singer, Billy Petrolle (2 of 3), Lou Ambers, Barney Ross (1 of 3)

For a time, McLarnin was viewed by contemporary sportswriters to be the best fighter pound-for-pound of his era. He was criticized because he out-weighed many of his opponents, but the reason he was able to gain this advantage was because his manager, Pop Foster, was smart enough to use his incredible drawing power at the gate as leverage to make advantageous matches.

I beg your indulgence if I quote from Volume One of my trilogy The One Is Jack Hurley, p. 501:

"McLarnin was widely regarded as the best boxer in the world and, along with Kid Berg, New York's greatest drawing card among the smaller divisions. Jack Kofoed, of the New York Post, called Jimmy 'the greatest little bit of fighting machinery in the world.' Don Skene in the Herald Tribune agreed, terming him 'the greatest fighter, pound for pound, in the game.' The American's Ed Frayne went even further, pegging him 'the greatest fighter of all time' and 'the super fighter of the ages.'

"Boxing experts agreed McLarnin had all the qualities of a truly great fighter - experience, punch, stamina, heart, speed, and generalship. He was an expert boxer, able to move swiftly or stand his ground as the situation demanded. A master at feinting, Jimmy had perfect judgment of distance which allowed him to slip punches by inches and step in with crushing counter punches with either hand. His best punch was a straight right-hand which he delivered flat-footed, leveraged with the entire weight of his body."​

 

Let's do a comparison for a moment on heart. If a fighter today loses his glossy undefeated record, he is distraught and takes off about a year. Having come to grips with their damaged psyche, they resume their twice-a-year fight schedule until the next damaging fight to their ego, which will create another hiatus from the ring wars. Now let's look at McLarnin, who took an absolute thumping from Sammy Mandell, Ray Miller and Billy Petrolle. How did he deal with those losses? He got them into rematches where he repaid the lacing he took from them with a similar beating in return. Now that's a fighter.

 

Copy pasted it from an old thread. The list is too long

-Fidel LaBarba
-Pancho Villa
-Bud Taylor
-Jackie Fields (NBA Middleweight Champion)
-Joe Glick
-Louis Kaplan (Feather Weight Champion)
-Billy Wallace
-Sid Terris
-Sammy Mandell
-Sergeant Sammy Baker
-Al Singer
-Billy Petrolle
-Benny Leonard
-Sammy Fullmer
-Young Corbet III
-Barney Ross
-Tony Canzoneri
-Lou Ambers

GREAT list of wins.

 

I think it was well before Mayweather. It may have been more like when ABC determined the only fights they would televise would be title fights and that 25-0 became very important. By todays lowering-the-bar standards, it is more like 15-0 to get that title shot. And heaven forbid they lose, because then its all over and they go off and pout and brood rather than tell their manager, "Get me a rematch!"

 

It’s crazy and it’s brainwashed people who aren’t smart enough to watch themselves or form proper views. Notice you’ll see some fans today who claim Lomachenko sucks because he lost to what they describe as a “bum” in his 2nd pro fight.

 

McLarnin has an incredible resume. They used to call him “The Jew beater”. Imagine that nickname today? Yikes.

 

Absolute ATG

 

The baby-faced assassin