Where do you rank Joe Savage?

I'm sure he is, respect to him he did put himself on the line. I wouldn't want to have a fight with him in the street or in the ring.

 

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If you watch the fight I posted earlier, he caught Cooper with a long right hand. After the bout Cooper said that after being caught with that right hander, "I knew I had to get him out of there ASAP, as I didn't want to get hit with another".
That bout came long after he lost to Foreman, and he was coming off 3 losses in a row if I have remembered correctly.

 

Yes he was jut a jobbing heavyweight by then. Nice thing for him to say.

 

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Excellent link...........I didn't know "Fight Forum" existed!! Good write up posts by some on there. I didn't know he was called "Lethal Weapon" either....................

 

Nice one Seamus, coincidence that Randy Commish mentioned Butterbean as well.

 

He gave it a go didn't he?
I know a couple of bare-knucklers, neither of them could name a single one of Savage's 42 victims.:think

 

Makes you wonder doesn't it. There was a mention in that article of him being beaten in the Phillipines by some little fella.

 

Much like Sullivan, Savage wasn't in his prime when he meet Cooper.

 

It really sucks that this guy was pre-YouTube

 

i met Joe in Club Millenium late 90s when i worked the door there. Nice guy, friendly and tea total. HUGE hands

 

Behave yourself Seamus!

 

Judging guys like Jem Mace based off guys like Joe Savage makes about as much sense as judging the skills of medieval knights based off of these guys

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There's no lineage between historical and modern bareknuckle, and the modern talent pool says nothing of the historic one. The argument is just garbage.

 

I rate him seven circles of hell below Butterbean.