"Punches I Have Taken" Tommy Gibbons

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Thanks for posting this Stonehands.

 

Tunney wrote "A Man Must Fight" somewhere around 1932 -although this one may get expensive:

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He also had a second one released years later called "Arms for Living".

Paul Gallico wrote "Farewell to Sport" in or around 1938. He was a famous sport's writer who covered the 20s.

Doc Kearns' book was published in 1966 called "The Million Dollar Gate"...

 

Great read. Thanku

 

BIG DEE HERE= This shows how the fighters of that era were not crude and simple in their outlook at ring warfare as they were quite technical in their styles and skills in fighting.
Mike Gibbons was one of the greatest Middleweights of all time and I personally have
him ranked in the top 20 at number 11 and that`s only because of the greatness
in front of him that held the title which of course Mike Gibbos never held. Tommy I also have ranked in the top 20 Lt Heavyweights at number 12.

 

I find it interesting that Gibbons says that he held his guard low to encourage Dempsey to use head punches rather than body punches.

Bit of a hard call to have to make.

Reading the article you can see why Gibbons was the first title oponent to take Dempsey the distance. He was a little bit more savy than the others.

 

Stonehands, thanks for posting.

 

Many of the great fighters of that era were also great trainers and philosophers of the sport.

Dempsey went onto write a book about correct technique, shredding away the misconceptions of boxing, the do's and don’ts to a pertinent degree.

Gibbons wrote with a technical pedigree rarely seen.

Many of these fighters from the era; Jack Dillon, Billy Miske, Tommy Gibbons, Bill Brennan etc, they were good friends, street-fighters/boxers who exchanged thoughts and sparring partners regularly.

These were wise times.

 

I always felt that the master boxers of this period and earlier were more self taught than those of later eras.

There has never really been another Bob Fitzsimons, Youg Griffo, Jack Johnson, Harry Greb. These fighters are miscelaneous types.