Your Walk of Shame......

I've never watched the Duran / Hagler fight. In fact, watching it is one of my 2024 New Year's resolutions. (Last year's was to learn how to use chopsticks. I'm now adequate.)

 

It's absolutely brilliant in the sense of a great chess match. The action isn't the Thrilla in Manila, but it's damn good and the combined boxing IQ in that ring is among the highest ever caught on film.

 

I am looking forward to it quite a bit.

 

"Go easy on me"

Sure! Why specifically the 30s? For example when you watch Canzoneri vs Kid Chocolate 1, I assume you believe them to be up to modern standards or at least not "Neanderthals". That fight was in 1931. My question is what did Canzoneri and Kid Chocolate learn to go from neanderthals in 1929 to looking like they did in 1931. What do you think every single boxer learned in the 1930s that made them better than they were in the 1920s or 1910s. Who introduced these concepts and why weren't they being used prior to 1930?

 

There have been many wicked boxing promoters who have passed away, but never once did I dig up their skull, and turn it into a wine goblet.

 

Johnny Come Lately here didn’t catch on to the brilliance of Nino until that late in the game? He caught my interest when he beat Mike Senegal, a good but far from great Southern circuit fighter whom I’d seen early in his career and knew he could fight. I think he may have been the first notable American (to the extent he was notable) on LaRocca’s impressive ledger.

He added quite a few more capable gatekeeper/journeyman scalps and pitched an impressive shutout over a past-it-but-still-able Pete Ranzany. I figured at that point, the sky was the limit. Turned out, Nino had already reached his limit.

 

They taught grammar in American schools back then. Rocky probably sat in the back of the classroom and made tough guy wisecracks but he had to absorb something.

 

I'm ashamed to admit I never saw Eder Jofre fight. I was already a boxing fan when he was bantamweight champ, but I don't remember him ever appearing on the Friday or Saturday Night Fights brought to you by Gillette razors and Foamy shave cream. Even now, with some of his bouts posted online, I still haven't watched him. I'm shamefully weak on the lightest weight classes. I'm partial to big knockers.

 

I dunno, all of the (limited) clips I've seen of the forefathers they looked crude, threw crude, feet were everywhere etc....... There were exceptions of fighters (like whom you just mentioned, Joe L etc....) who were gifted and more "modern" but those exceptions were outliers, and also likely the reason why they were so far beyond their peers. I think those outliers paved the way introducing technique and dragged the rest of the boxing world up

 

There isnt that much footagethere anyways