Gene Fullmer’s Reverse Cross Guard

[Dr. Z]

Stopped once, in his last fight? So you are saying his 2nd fight with SRR was his last.

My bad. It should have read stopped just once up to his last fight where his corner called off the fight.

A tough man the Utah farmer was.

https://www.deseret.com/2015/5/3/205...fe-and-legacy/

[them_apples]

Why are they trying to make it appear Fullmer avoided rabbit punching, when he landed more illegal punches than any fighter I can think of? All they did was show a few selected clips under the misrepresentation that Fullmer was so adept at avoiding throwing rabbit punches, when in reality he threw more rabbit punches than an MMA fighter. I already knew that about his guard and weird jab. The only down jab I know of.

Other than that I think he was a great or near great practitioner. But I will never deny he was quite dirty. Count the rabbit punches, as I once tried to in his four Robinson in his 4 fights with Robinson. In fact, I remember now I did write the numbers down and I can almost guarantee you will lose count. I will retrieve them after I have had about 12 hours sleep. A better interpretation might be that about 30% of his rabbit punches miss and accidentally land legally. To be fair, he also threw legitimate, legal lug busters quite often, and sometimes it is difficult to see if he landed a rabbit punch or a barely legal blow.

Actually, here is that list now. It is all four fights round by round.

Fight # 1

Rd. 1—9

Rd. 2—15

Rd. 3—10

Rd. 4 —5

Rd. 5—12

Rd. 6—16

Rd. 7—6

Rd. 8—10

Rd. 9—4

Rd. 10—23

Rd. 11—7

Rd. 12—11

Rd. 13—15

Rd. 14—14

Rd. 15—+17

174




Fight # 2


Rd. 1—4

Rd. 2—4

Rd. 3—3

Rd. 4—3

Rd. 5—2

16



Fight # 3, 18 ft. ring


Rd. 1—5

Rd. 2—16

Rd. 3—9

Rd. 4—6

Rd. 5—?

Rd. 6—2

Rd. 7—3

Rd. 8—?

Rd. 9—?

Rd. 10—6

Rd. 11—7

Rd. 12—1

Rd. 13—1

Rd. 14—1

Rd. 15—+1

58


Fight # 4

Rd 1—10

Rd 2—11

RD 3—10

Rd 4—2

Rd 5—10

Rd 6—12

Rd 7—3

Rd 8—13

Rd 9—7

Rd 10—13

Rd 11—11

Rd 12—10

Rd 13—16

Rd 14—5

Rd 15—12

87

Very ugly style but he looks like a nightmare to fight. No fundamentals just a whole slew of tricks and rough tactics.

[Slugfester]

Very ugly style but he looks like a nightmare to fight. No fundamentals just a whole slew of tricks and rough tactics.

Fullmer and Lamotta would be an interesting fight. Who would win that one?

[them_apples]

Fullmer and Lamotta would be an interesting fight. Who would win that one?

Tough fight, if they both show up its a ****er for sure. Maybe Lamotta. Hard to say

[QueensburyRules]

- - Lamotta the better boxer wins a tough, gritty, dirty kind of fight.