The ESB Fitzsimmons Project

Good luck Gparter. Remember you have to believe in a style for it to work properly. I recomend you spar with a novice who isn't too fast for the demo.

 

Fitz stayed down for a 9 count,I have no opinion on it ,just repeating what Davis said.

It would be interesting to get to the bottom of the assertion that Fitz deliberateldy left himself open to the ko ,because his hands were ruined ,and he had nothing left to fight with.

Lou Houseman ,a Chicago sports writer and Malachy Hogan a trainer both saw the Fitz Jeffries 2nd fight, and stated that Jefffries took more punishment than Willard at Reno.

Confirmation of this comes from Hype Igoe and Edgar Lee Masters,Igoe was a sportswriter ,and Masters ,a Poet ,Biographer and Boxing Historian.

 

One thing about the Fitz Jeffries fight that is often forgotten, is that under modern rules, Fitz almost certainly would have got the TKO due to the injuries sustained by Jeffries. Now that would have changed the course of history!

 

thanks.

Theres alot of novixes on my gym so should be easy enough to get one of them to help.

Was practising that switch double left hook and it is very effective even in modern rulesets

 

just caught the last few post`s GPater i will start from the beggining of this thread tomorrow what you are doing sounds interesting hope you post your sparring and if you can spar a lefty then you can compare the effectiveness of our new style against the two stances

 

Were trying to recreate the style of Bob Fitzsimmons to make people aware of it and to help people understand the style and the thinking behind it by a series of articles and/or videos

Its CT's brilliant idea and im helping him out

 

good luck to both of you :good

 

well need it.

its a hard ask, as theres not aot of footage and his style draws alot from Karate that i have never done

 

nice one CT so this will help all sorts of combat sports

we'll end up revolutionising combat sport haha

I havent had time to check that Dempsey manuel yet but ill have a squint tommorow. and maybe practise afew things with Karate Sean if we get time in the gym.

 

a small beginners guide would be good to see were singing off the same hyme sheet so to speak. Ill have time this weekend to really get into thisproject.

credit where its due

right im off for the night