Originally posted by McGoorty
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Considering that Smith ( I know its not very reliable, which makes me come to the point that most Australian newspaper had smith ahead) , Saylor and KO Brown three gusy who had first hand knowledge of both the guys , thought that Gibbons could clean up Darcy I think its a hard case....
Can you provide me one or two names who fought both guys and said darcy will beat Gibbons? Yea fought both remember....
About Nino okay, let us see. The man beat Griffith 2x which is alone better than anything Darcy has on his resume. Let us see Don Fullmer, Ki-Soo Kim, Luis Rodriguez (another Great)...the man was 65-0 at a point if he even retired at this point his whole career would be great. Was an Olympic Gold Medalist. What else do you want? His resume overshadows Darcy's. By the by he did avengehis loss to Tom Bethea. Much like Darcy might have done with Smith or Holland.
As for Darcy going more rounds than Nino, it proves that he had better stamina probably (since Nino never fought over 15 probably), but it doesn't prove he has a better resume.
Darcy was claimed more widely as champ? Look you gotta understand that boxing was mostly done in America...the Americans never ever recognized Darcy as the champ, except a few fighters and writers. You will find when you read the sources that Gibbons was widely regarded as the best boxer of that period...Yea it was the opposite in Australia. But since there were more people, more newspaper and more writers in America , I have to stand by Gibbons...
As for Darcy's claim vs Gibbons claim:-
Read this.
MIKE GIBBONS JUST A BIT TOO CLEVER FOR JIMMY CLABBY IN BATTLE FOR MIDDLEWEIGHT TITLE.
St Paul Scrapper Wins Six of 10 Rounds, and Two Are Even. Hoosier Begins and Ends Well, But in Between First and 10th Is Outpointed.
This will give you a better idea how the fight went :-
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id...ms+title&hl=en
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id...leweight&hl=en
The above Declares Gibbons as the best middle.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id...leweight&hl=en
This says that Mike Gibbons is generally given the credit for the best middle.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id...st+boxer&hl=en
The above says Mike Gibbons is one of the masters of the game.
And lastly I believe in studying newspaper and primary accounts over books. As per me Darcy was accepted by many as the best, but Gibbons outpointed him 2-1 here.
If you want I can give you more sources.
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