I was a champion.In one fight I was knocked cold with my head in the resin box, but was given a ND verdict by the judges...Who was I ?
Right you are Meast...Ketchel caught up with the elusive O'brien with ten seconds left flattened O'Brien ,who's head fell in a resin box..The fight was called a ND...
Ketchel was a killer...It was said many years ago that for those who had seen the "michigan Assassin ",he was the "only one "..He must have been something to have left such an impression on those who had seen him !
4 seconds left and no resin box mentioned in next-day reports. Judges didn't give a ND decision, as there were no judges in the first place.
This is an old question, as I answered this when I was a teenager, and that was back in the 1960's. O’Brien got to his feet and slumped down on his stool. For all his pain and woe, he was still ahead and now just one round away from adding the scalp of the great Stanley Ketchell to his belt. Just one round. Like a collapsing marathon runner who can see the tape but cannot grind out the last inches, Philadelphia Jack fell short of his target in the most dramatic fashion imaginable. A big body attack by Ketchell in the tenth culminated in a final shot that sent O’Brien down. Philadelphia Jack’s head came to rest in the resin box that his handlers had forgotten to clear from the ring at the end of the previous round, knocking him unconscious. Referee Tim Hurst’s count had reached four when the bell sounded. http://www.eastsideboxing.com/news.php?p=6122&more=1
I've seen 5 local papers, together with the AP and UP reports, none mention a resin box. After the bell O'Brien was carried to his corner by his seconds. Casey, as usual, probably used some write-up printed long time after the bout had taken place. Oh, and Casey confused the second fight in Philadelphia with the first fight in NY. The NY bout ending in ND10 was on March 26, 1909, and not
This is the first mention I found of the resin box with a quick google search: http://news.google.com/newspapers?i...AAIBAJ&pg=6719,3023138&dq=ketchel+resin&hl=en It's from 1922.
It sounded like a fantastic fight: http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9C05E2DA153EE733A25754C2A9659C946897D6CF
Senya, this historic fight occured at the old Fiss,Doerr, and Carrol Horse market on E 24th st,NYC. It was a 7 story bldg, for horse trading...It is now destroyed and part of Baruch College complex...Many years ago, i would walk past this site, before Baruch College, stop and try to visualize that epic battle march 26,1909, between the great Stanley Kethel and Phil Jack O'Brien, so long ago ! Eery feeling for me !!!
I'm having an eerie feeling when I don't even have to visualize, watching old film (not boxing-related), like the Butterfly dances, or Muybridge series photography. Watching Fitz-Corbett filmed around the same time doesn't quite give the same feeling. Also, when I'm looking at old photographs, not necessarily people, but buildings too, dating back to the middle of 19th century...
