Supposedly he was an extremely, extremely hard puncher... On the order of Fitz. His records a little misleading I guess, so I'm asking if anyone here knows anything about him. Stories, fights, anything.
The fist thing to know is that he was obsesive about his training. I am talking Rocky Marciano teritory. This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected
My bio on Fitz will have plenty on Maher. Yes, he was known as one of the hardest punchers in boxing at that time.
Yep, book finished and at at the printers! Should be available in a couple of months at the latest. I'll keep you posted.
Top, to keep everyone currently crazy about the Fitz book informed. Janitor, I think I heard you say some felt Maher hit even harder than Fitz?
Unfortuanately as he declined he became obsessive about his drinking and was beaten by men below him in class.
Of course mattdonnellon is our resident Maher expert so take his word first and foremost. Based on what I have read Maher was esentialy the Earnie Shavers of his era. Common oponents all said that he hit harder than Fitz Jeffries etc. He could be taken out by any good hitter but his power was off the scale. Like Shavers his power brought him within one fight of the vacant lineal title. Bob Fitzsimmons was his Larry Holmes.
Maher was considered one of the divisions hardest punchers in the period between Sullivan and Jeffries, comparable to Tom Sharkey and Joe Choyinski. Fitzsimmons threw as hard as those guys, but also had a genius for reeling his guys in that was all his own, as well as great judgement of moment and distance. So I'd say that Maher, Sharkey, Choyinski and Fitzsimmons were the hardest throwers, but Fitzsimmons was the hardest lander. Well, I posted, then I read this . . . very intriguing, would like to know who made the comparisons, and would certainly defer if there is such a consensus.
