Luke Campbell in 1919

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  1. POTUS

    POTUS Boxing Addict Full Member

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    100 years ago if we managed to place Luke Campbell vs the best lightweights in 1919.
     
  2. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    I think he`d beat all of them, there was a ,lot of unskilled fighters back then, Cambell did better v Loma thanmost lightweights back then would have and he has power with decent reach.
     
  3. The Undefeated Lachbuster

    The Undefeated Lachbuster On the Italian agenda Full Member

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    Dear lord he'd be slaughtered, are you a sadist??? The 1919 division was incredibly strong, that competition combined with Campbell being forced to fight 10 times a year minimum? Id reckon he'd settle for a job pumping gas. Much safer than getting into the ring with Benny Leonard, Tendler, Dundee, and eventually he'd have to face Britton and Kid Lewis as everyone in those days did

    Very, very dangerous for Campbell
     
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  4. The Morlocks

    The Morlocks Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    The deepest lightweight division in history Leonard ruled over. You have learned nothing in yr time here. Pathetic.
     
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  5. PhillyPhan69

    PhillyPhan69 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Once again I feel like you are being a little bit vague? Could you tell us what you really think in easy to understand verbiage?
     
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  6. The Morlocks

    The Morlocks Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    8:34 pm. Somewhere in west central Ohio. Snow falling on the farm. Ground and roofs covered. MA is a moron. Tomorrow I will run the horses, **** the goat, assudinam the tobacco hanging in the barn and read a book. Breakfast: 4 eggs toast ghetta hashbrowns marmalade. And lard. A nice autumn day in God's country.
     
  7. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Is that your situation? Sound dope as F.
     
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  8. The Morlocks

    The Morlocks Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Gotta realize I am almost 67 and worked hard all my life.
     
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  9. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    I'm living something similar tho no horses. And no snow yet.

    Congrats and Respect.
     
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  10. The Morlocks

    The Morlocks Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Thx. Hard work and sweat in your chosen field pays off. Tenacity. Let nothing stop you from your own valhalla.
     
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  11. Cecil

    Cecil Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Unskilled? Ray Arcel who worked with both couldn’t separate Leonard from Duran.
     
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  12. roughdiamond

    roughdiamond Ridin' the rails... Full Member

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    Morlocks you are, as I like to say, a beast. Respect from me; that's the situation I'd work for. Reminds me of my old man.
     
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  13. roughdiamond

    roughdiamond Ridin' the rails... Full Member

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    Anyway, Campell would be hurt, if he could even make 133 - 135 pounds then. One of the deepest talent pools in the deepest division, and different rule sets at that.
    Campell would at least be a 147 then IMO.
     
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  14. roughdiamond

    roughdiamond Ridin' the rails... Full Member

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    'And pound for pound, who was better, Robinson or Benny Leonard? I hesitate to say either one, but Leonard's mental energy surpassed anyone else's.'

    Ray Arcel
     
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  15. roughdiamond

    roughdiamond Ridin' the rails... Full Member

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    One of my favourite posts on this forum, from @Unnecessarily Hostile. About Benny Leonard, from Arcel.