So nobody in his own era was even able to knock him off his feet untill he was a walking corpse but these guys would KO him?
Jones EASY UD - An ancient Corbett was outboxing Jeffries and make him look like the unskilled brawler he truly was, and Corbett isnt fit to carry Supermans jockstap. Jeffries would probably lose to Ruiz nevermind Jones. Jones would be by far he best boxer Jeffries had faced LMAO at Jones not having the power to get respect, Corbett had 1/10th the power of Jones and he was standing Jeffries on his head
Have you actualy read any acounts of the first Jeffries Corbett fight written by anybody other than Corbett? While the majority of the papers were inclined to give the edge to Corbett at the time of the stopage, it was by no means the consensus. Oh and Jeffries did win incidentaly.
PowerPuncher, the legend of Corbett winning widely till caught are false .. read the actual fight coverage ... Jefferies was likely winning the fight at the time of the KO ... As far as Jones KOing him it is a joke. Jones could have hit him with the stool and not budged Jeffries ... I believe a healthy Jeffries, with two good hands, focused on a 15 round bout in a 20 ft ring chases Roy to a decision win or a later round stopage much like Johnson did ...
The only thing we have to judge Jones off of as far as being at the HW/CW level is being demolished by Green way past his prime and a cautious outclassing of John the dead quiet man Ruiz. If we're talking at the old heavyweight range, that is before a CW division. If we're talking a prime RJJ who could back then be able to step in and give all that weight away at 175 with his fluidity and reflexes and skill, that's another story. That RJJ might get knocked out but he might never be legitimately touched either.
Why is that? Jones was as big as Corbett. The same Corbett who went 23 rounds with Jeffries, despite not having won a fight in five years. It also took him 10 rounds to get rid of a supermiddleweight. Jones is lightning fast and while he'd make it a somewhat boring fight, he has a decent chance of hearing the final bell and win a decision. Jeffries was as big as Ruiz. He was the much greater fighter of course, but how well suited would he be to 12 rounds with big gloves and little wrestling allowed?
Agreed on the wrestling part, but dunno about you but what I usually do to 'even things up' (as there are quite a few posters who see the old-timers as technically deficient) is to allow to the older fighter the oppurtunity to wear the gloves of their choosing. would it make any difference to an analysis d'ya think?
Jeffries' preference was to put a bleedin horseshoe in his right mitt. Would flip homansky of the neveda state commission sanction that?