View Full Version : Rare Jim Corbett Footage


Brockton Lip
01-13-2008, 10:59 PM
Before the 1900's!
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TheGreatA
01-14-2008, 01:58 AM
I like the Bob Fitzsimmons fight more when Corbett gets knocked out with the Solar Plexus blow.

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"Gentleman" James Corbett 6'1" 184 lbs vs "Ruby" Bob Fitzsimmons 5'11½" 167 lbs 1897

This world heavyweight title fight happened 110 years ago. :banana:

-CANE-
01-14-2008, 03:35 AM
I like the Bob Fitzsimmons fight more when Corbett gets knocked out with the Solar Plexus blow.

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"Gentleman" James Corbett 6'1" 184 lbs vs "Ruby" Bob Fitzsimmons 5'11½" 167 lbs 1897

This world heavyweight title fight happened 110 years ago. :banana:

After the knockout of Corbett, Fitzsimmons would later say it's a new punch I've been working on it's called the check hook.

mickeyb
01-14-2008, 05:36 AM
i reckno... if i went in there, i could beat the snot out of them. With my am style, arms up high, good footwork.

chabobo66
01-14-2008, 07:06 AM
haha, looks like 2 flamers going at it. But I guess they fought like that back in the day

Dempsey 1919
01-14-2008, 04:39 PM
i reckno... if i went in there, i could beat the snot out of them. With my am style, arms up high, good footwork.

I doubt it.

wmute
01-14-2008, 07:13 PM
i reckno... if i went in there, i could beat the snot out of them. With my am style, arms up high, good footwork.

arms up high would be useless with those gloves.

Ishak Pasha
01-18-2008, 10:55 PM
i uploaded that clip.
it was the 2nd boxing fight ever recorded (1894). :fing02:

moin126
01-19-2008, 08:14 PM
i really wonder how a jack johnson fight woud look like, with the camera's we have now