Jorge Luis Gonzalez vs Jim Corbett

As much as I don't like Corbett.. I honestly can't pick Gonzales to win, when he couldn't even beat ham n eggers of his own era.. Corbett could do that and better. So for that reason, I will pick Corbett.

 

I doubt any commission on the planet that would let a 178 pounder with less than 20 fights and an ass-cheek revealing thong in the ring with a super heavy like Gonzalez.

I wonder why that is?

 

Indeed, but so would Corbett

As a pro he beat Lennox Lewis, Bowe, Teofilo Stevenson and Tyrell Biggs. It's a full time profession in Cuba and a more competitive sporting environment than the 1890s field of opponents, were there was a talent field of about 20 boxers in the world

Are you implying it's a different sport, like 1890s semi-pro boxing was also a different sport with less evolved skillsets

 

No round limit?

I'm pretty sure the guy that kayoed Sully could take out the guy who was KTFO in 4 by Baby Joe Mesi (who, incidentally, was giving up the same six inches that Corbett would have been - and who surely can't honestly be said to have the higher natural savvy and ring IQ?)

 

I think people need to put down the ballyhoo news reports from yesteryear and take a hard look at Corbett on film. This is decently enough filmed that you can make out his tendencies, style, technique and flaws, I mean staggering flaws by modern standards. Add to that, he was a 185 pound man with a 72 inch reach. This is what you have to go against a modern superheavy, even one who squandered his considerable talent, was lazy and proved not to have the grit for the upper echelon of the pro game.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVwNVzqQeeg[/ame]

 

Either man in that film kayos Gonzo. :conf

And I'm not a big nostalgia guy or a pusher of the "modern is inferior" agenda.

 

since about d year 2000 modern is inferior but not 2 those times , at least not on as far as heavyweight h2h comparisons r concerned .
Only thing that was better in those days was stamina and i m not even sure about that . with all d clinching and d fat drunk men that sometimes rosed 2d top in that era , i m quite sure that their stamina was being far from d advertised , i got a feeling that their rds were about 1 minute long and sometimes shorter . sometimes until a kd occured , maybe even until other things as well , and more fixed fights than 2day . If u can pick such a flawed and not even a very durable nor very powerful lightheavyweight 2 beat a former amateur superheavyweight star with credentials , your prediction sense is more lacking than i thought it was .