One thing about reading the Ring was they respected old time fighters and re-told their legendary stories.
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Re: The Old Timers....who are your favorites?
One thing about reading the Ring was they respected old time fighters and re-told their legendary stories.
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The great Harry greb...and with one eye blind!
Shame theres no fight footage of him
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Didn't he die trying to get a nose job.Originally Posted by teflonden
The great Harry greb...and with one eye blind!
Shame theres no fight footage of him
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Lol yes but nose job sounds so superficial. It was just a simple septoplasty that went wrong.Didn't he die trying to get a nose job.The great Harry greb...and with one eye blind!
Shame theres no fight footage of him
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I have a real interest in Georges Carpentier, probably most well known for his fight with the great Jack Dempsey, but a very good champion in his own right.
He was more a forties fighter but I think Willie Pep is our sports No.1.
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I know this won't sound too "boxing fan-ish", but I think had I been around for the pre-1930's crowd, I probably wouldn't have been too big a fan of boxing. I realize sports evolutionize in general.... boxing, football, basketball, etc. But I'm just not a fan of the straight forward, plodding, style that used to be the norm in those days. There were great champions to be sure, but they were among fighters of the same style, same movements. Take a time machine, and send back a great boxer-puncher from the 60's or later... and the guy would be an undefeated beast. I could be wrong and I'm not dissing the fighters from that era. It just wasn't my cup of tea. Then again, I think the same way about other sports as well.
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You're generalizing to a shocking extent, not everyone was a straight forward brawler as you suggest ESPECIALLY in the 1920's-1930's there were great and I mean GREAT pure boxers in those eras.
Benny Leonard
Gene Tunney
Barney Ross
Kid Chocolate
Tony Canzoneri
There were plenty of slick boxers and defensive specialists in the old times, defense and counter punching didn't JUST come around in the 1960's.
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