New Book - In the Ring With James J. Jeffries

This link confirms that Gardner was down multiple times.

It also confirms that Gardner stank the place out, and that Fitz was terrible.

http://www.antekprizering.com/november251903.html

 

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I don't know. I had some pretty good coaches and was always told that if you are taller than your opponent to fight taller. Do not come down to their size. And if you are shorter, which Jeffries rarely was, to fight smaller. Also, the manner in which he leaned away really seemed to the detriment of his right hand. He really had to telegraph it for a head shot.

Funny, also, that in Pollack's good there is much mention of how poor Jeffries' defense was to body blows.

 

Nor am I as none of the existing film we have on Jeffries shows him employing this tactic. He does go into something of a crouch, but I've yet to see that arm poke out of it like some obscene rhino proboscis.

From what I've seen his left tends to sway pendulously in front of him. Sort of like a less-exaggerated version of Tommy Hearns.