Revisionist History Contest

1. Bums don't put on boxing clinics against the baddest man on the planet in Max Baer

2. I dont think any serious poster says 'Tyson was never any good'

 

Rubin Carter.

 

Braddock was garbage. Period. He improved later as a heavyweight because he boxed more trying to preserve his hands. He was a puncher as a LHW and he sucked. Watch his title fight with Loughran. He looks worse than amateurish. Its pathetic. I also think the Baer fight was close and could have gone either way. I have the complete fight and its not the boxing lesson its cracked up to be.

 

On this forum: Jimmy Young and Ezzard Charles.

Just because you were underrated at the time, does not mean you should be overrated now......

 

It was more a case of how good Loughran was instead of how bad Braddock was. Braddock s no bum...an average fighter perhaps, but no "bum" beats a Max Baer, even an unfocused, head-case, unmotivated Max Baer.

 

I must say that this forum has a very balanced view IMO. If anything the tendency is to correct the somewhat undeserved reputation of fighters like Dempsey while lifting up those that undeservedly has been denied the spotlight like Langford, Wills and Burley. Some hero worship that still persists of guys like Jeffries, Sullivan and Dempsey can annoy me, though.

I'm not saying they weren't good, but I can't say anything conclusive about guys that have ducked as many good fighters as they have.

 

Love the avatar, McGrain. One of the baddest characters around.


As for the topic, i'll support the mention of Primo Carnera.

 

Fine post. The overall balance around here might be collectively the best around.

 

I for one can say that I'm actually glad that Ron Howard directed Cinderella man. There were some falacies from what I have read. For one thing, Max Baer was not the brute in real life that the movie depicted him as. He was actually known as a fairly nice guy. But as for Braddock getting too much appraisal? I don't see what's wrong with the telling of man's life story, especially one that was as fascinating as his, and no, I don't think that his legacy was revised through history.

Mike Tyson gets a lot of flack for his loss to Douglas, especially when compared in head to head fantasy matchups. I don't however, think that most fans, historians, etc. view him " never being any good "