Originally posted by Bundana
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Almost not a single measurement matches; it may well be Louis from a later fight (considering the weight.)
Only Baer's Chest (n) is the same, even Chest (ex) is off by a half inch; they got the all important "ankle" wrong by entire inch. (Why do they measure ankles? Back in the 1930s they didn't measure fists but they did measure ankles???)
Normally I would argue that the more primary source (the newspaper) should take precedent but those thigh measurements really discredit the newspaper and I suspect The Ring Record Book is likely closer.
One might suspect that The Ring Record Book took single measurement for each fighter and applied it to every fight.
Did The Ring Record Book have these measurements juxtaposed against each other Baer-Louis (Tale-of-the Tape) or are they generic measurements for each champion and you placed Baer opposite Louis?
Either way they are more realistic measurements than the NYTimes offered its readers the day before the fight.
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