Joe louis vs tommy farr was tommy farr robbed?

Yep a very good performance from Tommy.

 

Farr never ever claimed to have beaten Louis.
As for Louis' hand injury Farr was cut 4 times, his nose was broken my Louis' first punch and damaged his own fingers.
Louis said "That boy was tough"
Fair said "every time I hear the name Louis I get a nose bleed"
Tommy was probably on the wrong end of a sentimental decision against Jimmy Braddock but earlier in his career got a dubious win over Tommy Loughran.

 

The listening to the fight on UK radio reference brings back a memory. My only trip to England came in the early 1990s. Betting being legal there, I wanted to place a small wager on a fight just for the heck of it. There was a light schedule over those two weeks or so I was in country and the only fight on the board when I went into the parlor was Scotland’s Pat Clinton challenging Isidro Perez of Mexico for the WBO flyweight crown in Glasgow.

So I made my wager and made to find out if the fight was televised, which it wasn’t, but it was on one of the BBC radio channels so I listened in: for the entire 12 rounds the commentators lamented how the Mexican was one step ahead of Clinton from the start, just too much for the game local lad but applauded Pat’s effort. At the final bell they said it was a foregone conclusion but Clinton had not embarrassed himself — then came the announcement and Pat wins a split decision and all of a sudden it was ‘wha a brilliant performance by the plucky Scot, how he outfoxed the champion at every turn, blah blah blah’ … exactly the opposite of how they had seen it all the way through and now they were talkinga bout a different fight. Well there went my wager, haha.

As for Farr, there’s a nice AJ Liebling story, I think in ‘The Sweet Science’ collection of his boxing essays, where Farr features. IIRC, Liebling is trekking to England for a fight and is on the plane with Farr or runs into him in the UK … maybe both. But he paints a delightful portrait of the retired Farr.

He relates how children would come up to Tommy and ask, ‘Did you really fight Joe Louie?’ And Farr would always reply, ‘Well if I didn’t then who put all these ruddy loomps on my ‘ead’?

 

Your recollection of the commentary of the Pat Clinton fight is exactly the same as the way that the BBC called the Turpin vs Robinson fight in London.
Turpin was expected to be a game loser so that's what the plummy voiced commentator told his listeners.
When people who weren't actually at Earl's court saw the fight they wondered which fight Cholmondley-Warner had watched.
I can well believe the anecdote about Farr by A J Liebling and up till a few years ago we all called Joe Louis, Joe Louie

 

Let’s be honest on the world stage,brit heavyweights were always viewed as brave gutsy good losers that gave it a good try but you could count on them always falling short. Farr is just another example of that. It took the better part of the whole of the last century passing before british canadian Lewis was able to change that perception of brit heavyweights

 

Known as the Land of the Horizontal Heavyweights. Farr was the exception as he went the distance.

Brits have had long lhad affinity for their lovable losers. Sometimes I think they favored the guys who came up short over the ones who won the big fights.