Rate Beau Jack Please

Top 20, easy. Wouldn't look out of place in the lower end of the top 10, though I personally would be inclined to place him just outside (like, 12-13)

 

He was a beast.
Yeah, he'd have to be top 20.

 

cant remember a top 20 ranking off the top of my head I can remember rummy,s top ten . top twenty yeah, top ten not for me . h2h a beast I would think as when at the top of his game he would of no doubt been an amazing sight a swarming volume puncher and with great upper strength .off the top of my head though how long was his prime

 

as I thought this was taken from our top 10 lists . if rummy had asked for a top twenty I am sure he would of made mine and probably a few other list's

lightweight really is a deep division the boxers in danger of slipping out for me as I think I would have jack and another boxer in near the bottom the list are Blackburn, mandell and ambers

 

6/10 would not bang.

 

IMO he is forgotten, I mean, even in here he is not discussed enough, I would put him in a top 15 easily if I have a list...

 

Wow, Lou Ambers only made the bottom run of the top 20.

 

when i saw this thread, I thought this poem might be appropriate:


Philadelphia, 1946.
Night. My father and I are walking home
along a pavement raked by swirling snowflakes
wherever the wind kicks up. Having just emerged
from under the beamed shadows of the El
we cross to the Arena, heading home
– to mashed potatoes, sisters, downcast eyes,
anger and sullen silence – past the wall
in which a door stands open and I see
in luminous blackness hundreds of black shapes,
heads and shoulders, the sides of faces silvered
in swirls of smoke, the embers of cigars
glowing an instant and then blacking out –
far off in the black depths the source of light,
the canvas square of ring circled by kliegs
and a slim brown man who has a bigger man
pinned on the ropes, digging blood-red gloves
methodically, like a man chopping wood,
into his ribs, the white skin splotching pink.
Could I have seen at that distance the rocking
and ripple of muscle under the bronze skin
or did I just imagine all of this?
It couldn’t have been much more than a second –
my father was a very impatient man –
but there it is, as radiant as just now.
My arm was jerked hard, I was dragged away
wondering desperately who the man was – then
there he was on a poster, fists cocked, poised,
smiling behind his gloves. I have forgotten
the name of his opponent but not his name.
I loved him, and I wanted what he had –
not the jeweled belt, the title, money, fame –
what could they mean to an eleven-year-old?
No, what I wanted was the pride and power,
prowess and speed and grace, and even more,
fearlessness in the face of bigger men.
And that most beautiful of names – Beau Jack.

 

How do I do justice to the name Beau Jack ? Other than to repeat that Beau Jack
headlined the first pro main event I saw at St. Nicholas Arena in New York City, and Beau
was the most exciting action packed fighter I ever saw. So exciting was he that I a yoingster, and my buddy traveled by bus to Philadelphia to watch the fading Beau Jack
fight the murderous punching Ike Williams almost decapitate Beau Jack, before the
referee finally stopped the fight with Beau out on his feet with his arms dangling in back of him ensnared in the ropes, and Jack was unabled to fall...I saw Beau whip Henry Armstrong ,ans many other times...One fight I will never forget was in 1947 when Beau Jack broke his kneecap in the ring with Tony Janiro ,and was literally hopping on one leg
determined to continue until the referee stopped the fight...Beau Jack, very powerful
threw every punch in the book,in clusters, in volleys and always on the attack, who sokd out MSG 7 times in ONE year... Too bad that todays fans only see him on film when he was fading, against Ike Williams... When Beau was younger and fresher he was a helluva
lightweight to behold...

 

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