Prime Sullivan, Corbett, Jackson, and Wills. A round robin tournament in which each fight each other over 15 rounds on a level playing field, with a pretty lenient ref. I rate this quartet closely, so the question has always fascinated me. (Also... I've recently moved to Taiwan, so some of the excellent biographical books which you guys often recommend on this forum are difficult or expensive to obtain right now). Thank you
I'm going to pick Wills to come off the canvas to take this against Sullivan in the final. Prime for Prime. No Amazon in Taiwan?
Postage costs more than the books, haha! I'll get them one day. I think a prime Jackson is a match for prime Corbett. Probably does him. I think both may have come up just a touch short against a truly prime Sullivan. I'm not sure about Wills. What makes him your man?
Here's something cute that was posted in General today: https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/found-something-cool-about-john-l-sullivan.594401/ Apparently this guy's great grandfather wrote about going to watch Sullivan fight as a kid in his journal.
My current thinking is a Sullivan-Jackson final. Maybe Sullivan takes it. Prime is the key here, possibly. Four true beasts, though.
A very plausible scenario, and one where it is difficult to predict an outcome. Peter Jackson's manager Parson Davis said that he thought Sullivan would have won prime for prime, but that Jackson would have won in the time frame where the fight could have actually happened.
