Joe Jeannette vs. Georges Carpentier

Any chance Nationalism may have played a part in the referee's deciscion? Franz Reichal was a German ref and Jeannette I believe had a German mother, perhaps he wanted to stick it, so to speak to the Frenchman?

 

I'm in the same boat as everyone else we haven't seen fight and so can't give a definite opinion on the result.

Looking at Jeannette's record he seems to have dropped decisions,and to have drawn with people you would assume he would have beaten ,that is if he was as good as we have been led to believe.
Possibly he was treated unjustly in some ,but also possibly he is a trifle overated and some of those who surprisingly beat him are a trifle underated?

 

Yeah, it's impossible to say without seeing the fight, I was just trying to add a theory to speculate upon. I know Carpentier has been all over the map in terms of historical rankings. He seems to have gone from being overrated to underrated in matter of a generation. He did have a shining moment against Dempsey but I still tend to think he may have been overrated a little and perhaps Jeanette was too. Carpentier does seem to have gotten raw deal here.

 

reichel was belgian i believe.

 

I could of sworn i read he was German but trying to source his nationality the best I came up with was that "frantz reichel was the best of the French Referees" from the New York Times Oct 20th 1920. So French or Belgian makes my theory moot. Certaintly sounded Germanic to me.

 

Im pretty sure he was Belgian which would make sense given his German sounding name and the reference to him being French. The Belgians were closely allied with France but shared a border with Germany and so you have an interesting mix of Franco-Germanic-Dutch (through their shared border with the Netherlands). The three largest language groups in Belgium during this period were the French, Dutch, and German groups with the French being dominant.