Wooohooo! Found footage of Captain Bob Roper

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  1. klompton

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    Its not fight footage. Its of him boxing as an extra in an old silent film. Still pretty neat.
     
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    :good well done
     
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    Where can we see it? Who confirmed the film?
     
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    Where is it?
     
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    who is it?
     
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    I confirmed it. A couple of years ago I found an old advertising still with a photo of Roper and the star in a boxing pose together with a caption listed below it identifying the two. Roper was never listed in the credits and the film is hard to get ahold of but I got a copy yesterday and watched it and sure enough its him. Its pretty cool. He fights out of a crouch, leaning to one side, kind of like Jeffries.
     
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    Was Captain Bob the first to proudly blaze the pirate skull n bones logo in the ring,Did Homicide Henry copy him?

    Might be the only man to trade real blows with Jack Johnson,Harry Greb,Tommy Gibbons & brawled with Jim Jeffries outside a courtroom in 1930

    Captain Bob himself in action here as The Mute Brute with plenty of screen time in Under Texas Skies from 1930.He certainly looks a lunatic,One report has him doing a runner from the Jeffries fight

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    The other film with him is on youtube but cant say i noticed him

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    Cant tell if he lost a lot of weight by 1939,Anyone know if its him working the corner for his brother Jack vs Joe Louis
     
    jdempsey85, Sep 7, 2024
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