The Old Timers....who are your favorites?

Here's some film of Siki
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP69CPRwFjA

Sam Langford
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2jtZ31rOlQ

Stanley Ketchel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzAitWvgkNE

Joe Gans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML5WLvrc0P8

Kid Chocolate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEh3IBo_RIg

Hope you guys can get past the fact that those aren't the greatest quality, but still interesting.

Thanks for that last post Lyle. I haven't seen that Kid Chocolate fight until you posted it. Beautiful.

Edit: By the way, I was just looking up how much punches Joe Gans and Battling Nelson threw a round and found this article from cox's corner: Busting The Modern Myth!

The rest of the figures are fascinating as well, such as Sam Langford having more KO's than Tyson and Foreman combined.

Jimmy Wilde and alot of the others already mentioned as well.

The Manassa Mauler Jack Dempsey.

http://i338.photobucket.com/albums/n...180/MAULER.jpg

Couple of nice highlights:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_AsOroeb8w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmaPxa-eZss
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Battling Siki seems a character, more eccentric than Eubanks with a tragic death.

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I was right about to mention Siki. If anyone hasn't read Battling Siki, the biography by Peter Benson, you have to. Great read.

Jack Dempsey. I simply love the way this guy fight's. The bell rings he works from beginning to end without stopping.

One that always interested me was Jersey Joe Walcott but hew didn't fight until 1930.

Dempsey looks a mean MF!

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Dempsey looks a mean MF!

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He was one of the roughest, toughest, hungriest desperados to ever step into a boxing ring. Aggression, meanness and an electrifying a performer as has ever laced up a pair of gloves. Probably the most famous sportman of his era.

Rocky Graziano and Jake Lamotta.

Dempsey Marciano and Louis.

I gotta go with Bob Fitzsimmons. Never knew what the skinny dude would come up with next. Obviously I am going on reputation. I am old, but not old enough to remember him. LOL

From what I've read and highlights I've seen of them; Jack Johnson & Kid Chocolate.

Joe Walcott, Harry Greb, Gene Tunney and George Dixon also come straight to mind pre 1930.

Terrible Terry McGovern had a short but intense career, that sometimes gone unnoticed.

Sammy Langford is arguably a top five all-time great.

I read up on Jem Mace, a huge influence on modern boxing. Without Mace, there would be no sport as we know it today, Mace was not just Boxing's but Sport's first global superstar.

I got a Battling Siki book at home, a pretty hard read, but the Norfolk fight sounds brutal...

Ike Williams is another old timer I really like watching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByQnTlv5VHw

Would love to have seen Benny Lynch, I have posted a link for some info onhim. Alas an all too familiar story for him at the end though.

Benny Lynch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia