Disadvantages Of Being Big

[JAB5239]

- - Biggest disadvantage with being BIG is having none, nunca, zero advantages of being small...simples...

Stamina surely seems to be an issue with most big heavyweights.

[The Old LefHook]

Yeah ignorance on your part. Not even trolling you, I think you are ignorant on this topic - as in you don’t know what you are talking about and lack information.

what makes Fury so skillful? I think hes got average skills in a bad era. I didnt see any masterful boxing against Wlad.

There is an even better response to this ilk of churl--none

[Ivich]

When I examine records of the old-timers, I find mismatches on a whole different level, from what we see today. Stuff that simply wouldn't be tolerated now. Look how a world ranked Stribling, as a veteran of more than 200 pro fights, met several absolute nobodies, who had never won (and would never win!) a fight. Or how future HOFer George Godfrey, likewise met complete no-hopers with hardly any fights, when he himself was a seasoned veteran of 100+ pro bouts. Could we today imagine a world ranked boxer like, say, Joseph Parker engage in a string of "stay busy" fights against complete unknowns, with not a single win under their belt? No, of course not!

Early stoppages is something that is almost impossible to examine... since we have no film of the majority of fights back then. So we can't really know, one way or the other.

What we do know, is that lots and lots of boxers at the time were thrown out for not only making little effort - but for making no effort at all! Boxers who held back so blatantly, that the ref refused to accept it as being an honest match, and sent the two boxers packing. Hundreds and hundreds of boxers suffered this humiliation. Among them some of the absolute top men... such as Godfrey (x4), Shade (x4), Rosenbloom (x2), Slattery (x2). Even the great Mickey Walker was once thrown out (along with his opponent, Jimmy Jones) in a welterweight title defense - and suspended for one year for taking part in a sham fight!

I think it's safe to say, that not all old-timers went for the KO all the time!

Several of Stribling's "opponents" were his chauffeur, fighting under different names.