Of some legendary fighters, most noteworthy Harry Greb, we don't have any footage. Of others such as Sam Langford we have very little. And for yet others such as Muhammad Ali, we have an abundance. We know exactly what he was capable of because he gave so much, and because it is so dilligently recorded. If all we had were pictures.... This content is protected ...it would be pretty difficult to convince someone that this massive man punched with the speed of a middleweight and danced like...well, something that has to be seen to be believed. Or this cat: This content is protected What if you tried to sell that this scrawny kid could punch like a mule? Or better yet -- that this ideal son-in-law, this innocent goody-two-shoes was a sadistic sneering beast inside those ropes that hasn't seen his equal since? You'd probably think an oldtimer was telling them a tale. You'd respect his views, but assume them to be rose-tinted, celebrating his child-hood heroes and exaggerating his attributes to the point of godhood. After all, what your eyes tell you is something different entirely. This content is protected This content is protected You might even think that two evolved specimens like these would knock him out inside six rounds. What about these pictures? This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected If you know of any photo's that go against a fighters nature, feel free to post them.
If all we had were pictures, then we'd be free to claim they had godlike abilities(Greb). Because there would be no film revealing to us that they were primitive, crude and looked like absolute ****(Ketchel, Jeffries, Fitz, Dempsey etc)
