Prime Jim Corbett v. prime Jim Jeffries

That is fun to learn. Some of the closeups of the footwork were very fast and skilled and Conn was certainly that. A number of real life fighters, trainers and athletes were probably involved in the film. I heard that the famous wrestler Ed "Strangler" Lewis was in some scenes.

 

North Star, if you haven't seen it, you might want to be on the lookout for 'The Prize Fighter and the Lady', a Max Baer vehicle co-staring Myrna (Yum!) Loy. Before the M Baer-Carnera (choreographed) fight, there's a big assemblage of boxing and wrestling notables, including Dempsey, Jeffries, Willard, and 'Strangler' Lewis.

 

Jack Roper also starred in the film and purportedly knocked Flyn out a few times during filming.

 

Flynn was a halfway decent boxer but because of breathing problems he could only do abbreviated fight scenes.
He had a real life knock down drag out ,with Director John Huston ,another decent boxer, they ended up friends.

When Flynn made the" Charge Of The Light Brigade", the cavalry used rubber tipped lances.Flynn as the leader was in front of the" 600", one of the hard bitten stunt riders, immediately behind him, put his lance into the area of Flynn's horse where the sun does not shine.The horse reared, [and who could blame it]?
Flynn,who was a very good horseman ,fell off,in a fury, he marched over to the front line and demanded to know who the guilty "lancer" was.
No answer was the stern reply,Flynn then challenged every one there to a settler, there were no takers.
Flynn has gone down in history as a great "swordsman",to employ a euphemism , but his balls were as big as his dick.

 

Thanks, guilalah and to all the other boxing movie fans here sharing their thoughts. I will watch for that the next time the film is shown. I saw that movie once many years ago on TV but I had forgotten that Strangler Lewis was in it. I recall they had Dempsey and Willard chatting together briefly on camera. They seemed to be fairly pleasant to each other but I wonder if it felt a bit awkward to them. Willard was said to have had hard feelings about his loss to Dempsey for the rest of his life.

Jeffries was older and heavier in this film but he still looked imposing and scary. Max Baer was in his prime and he was a fairly competent actor. Mryna Loy appeared to be genuinely attracted to him. Max was also in good shape about 20 years later when he played a sadistic fighter in "The Harder They Fall" with Humphrey Bogart. :hi:

 

A healthy Jeffries wins by late round KO.

 

Was he not healthy in their two actual encounters?:huh

 

In their first encounter Jeffries was still having issues with his left arm. He couldn't fully extend it and, day after the fight, a doctor found that one of the bones meeting at the elbow was a quarter inch dislocated. The doctor reset it, and Jeffries had his arm casted for several weeks. (This is related in Pollacks 'In the Ring with James J Jeffries).

 

How healthy would you say a nearly 34 year old Corbett ,who had not had a fight in 2 years, and not won one in 6 years was?
Jeffries was 24 years old, 10 years younger, and, had fought 1 month previously.

How healthy was Corbett when he faced a prime Jeffries, one month short of his 37th birthday,not having fought in 2 years and having 5 rds combat in 3 years?

Jeffries was 27 years old.
Who would you say was the healthier of the two?