Very funny and in many ways comparable to the criticism that boxers face even today: http://news.google.com/newspapers?i...910,1257826&dq=jack+johnson+marvin+hart&hl=en http://news.google.com/newspapers?i...AAAIBAJ&pg=4140,1704222&dq=jimmie+mason&hl=en http://news.google.com/newspapers?i...AAAAIBAJ&pg=3958,165946&dq=jimmie+mason&hl=en http://news.google.com/newspapers?i...AAAIBAJ&pg=6788,1667710&dq=jimmie+mason&hl=en http://news.google.com/newspapers?i...AAAIBAJ&pg=1912,6909507&dq=jimmie+mason&hl=en There are a ton more of these articles for anyone who wants to read more, just search for Jimmie Mason. A word of warning about the language though, it's the early 1900's after all.
This has happened and always will i remember in the mid 70s Ali was ranked as low as 7 or 8 (all time heavys) by one respected magazine. Also remember Graziano saying that Hagler and Hearns were tough but wouldnt have been top guys in his time LOL!! 20 years from now people will be saying there no longer make fighters like May,Pac,ODlh,Tito,Jones,Hopk etc etc.
Good old James "Red" Mason. Boxing in Pittsburgh would never have happened as it did without him. Before Art Rooney he WAS Pittsburgh boxing, from the 1890s to Harry Greb and beyond
Great stuff. Funny and interesting all at once. What do you guys make of some of his comments? Such as those regarding Attell, Herrera, Nelson, O'Brien, etc?
The sub headline on the first article made me smile : "Battling Nelson Has Shown a Yellow Streak Since Coming East" Admittedly I'm no expert on Nelson, but yellow streak is not something I had him associated with.
In the beginning of one of Jack Dempsey's books (Championship Fighting?) that he wrote during Marciano's reign, he mentions how horrible the current division is and that even the champ would have been a ham and egger in his day.
