Should John L. Sullivan retire?

You're all forgetting that he beat Braddock in 1968. I heard it on the radio! I'm guessing he has 1 more good fight in him.

 

Still pick him over Wilder.

 

I’m not even sure he should have fought Corbett. He had been inactive for most of the previous several years. Retiring unbeaten would have been ideal

 

John L., buried in a hole blasted by TNT, will never rest. He continues to watch all so-called champs, unimpressed, loaded to the gills, waiting for just one of the poor B'stards to call him out.

And I pray it never happens.

 

Well thank you for letting us down lightly on this sensitive piece of information. Who’s your source?

Dead to you maybe but it seems not to a good many others. I have to assume reports of his death that you’ve read were greatly exaggerated. I mean it wasn’t as if he looked grossly overweight and well beyond his years when the great J to the L Sullivan reportedly transitioned. I’ve always had my doubts on this.

Have you seen the footage of him hitting the speed bag in 1910? Lord he could make that thing sing. Liston had Night Train. John L rattled the bag to the staccato rhythm of Dame Nellie Melba.

Didn’t miss a beat even when having to retrieve his flat cap which had fallen off due to his punching exuberance.

Even a justifiably awed Jack Johnson admitted that he was glad he was fighting Jim Jeffries and NOT John L. Even of the punches that missed the speed bag (of which there were many as claimed by some less sycophantic observers) Johnson swore they sounded like cannon balls whizzing by.

 

I'm sorry but my mental image of that is just a dead John L rotting away at the end of the table and AJ nervously trying not to look at it while the flies gather lol.

 

It would have been interesting

 

Like a passing of the torch fight??
Good one.

 

Was that the same year about when Marciano beat that fraud Ali up!?

 

Fair enough but who’s the best person to help out on this? John Edward or that Celebrity Psychic dude (that’d be a treat to see and hear him channeling the manly man that John L. was).

Personally, I’d opt for Oda Mae Brown. She’s the real deal. John L can just jump straight into her notwithstanding lack of consent. I wonder if like Houdini, John L invested someone with a code word to verify himself from the other side. Something like “Whiskey” perhaps?

 

I guess it is kind of cool to belittle John L, Corbett et al.
My suggestion would be that you boxing experts go and engage in a bare knuckle fight, or a fight with gloves like they wore in 1900. Just 4 rounds. Then talk.