Best Little Guy

[Sweat]

what did he die of?

he had like some kind of an infection in his mouth before the fight and he still fought to not disappoint the fans and he died after the fight because he was poisoned by his mouth infection.

[Yogi]

he had like some kind of an infection in his mouth before the fight and he still fought to not disappoint the fans and he died after the fight because he was poisoned by his mouth infection.

Most sources say that Villa actually had a wisdom tooth extracted the morning of his non-title fight against Jimmy McLarnin, and the resulting infection, which ended up being in Villa's throat, hadn't showed up til a copy of days later when it was discovered by a the same dentist who initially pulled the tooth (Villa also had a few more teeth extracted during that followup visit). It was about a week and a half after facing McLarnin when Villa died, as the throat infection just got worse, and by the time Villa was checked into a hospital, it had already gotten to the point where nothing could be done about it...Poor guy!

[Yogi]

As for the thread title, I'd classify these guys as some of the best "little guys" in history;

Jimmy Wilde, Eder Jofre, George Dixon, Terry McGovern, Pascuel Perez, Jimmy Barry, Miguel Canto, Ricardo Lopez, Ruben Olivares, Panama Al Brown, Fidel LaBarba, Pancho Villa, Fighting Harada, Carlos Zarate, Benny Lynch, Frankie Genaro, Manuel Ortiz, Pete Herman...I'm running out of names here, but off the top of my head, there's just a few of the greatest Bantamweights and Flyweights of all-time.

[Yogi]

Wilde is probably the best puncher below Featherweight that ever lived.

That's very likely and there's some who would say that Jimmy Wilde was the best puncher who ever lived, no matter what the weight division was.

Boxing Illustrated, for one, had that opinion about ten years ago when they ranked the 40 hardest punchers in boxing history...Wilde sat at the very top of that list in the #1 spot.

The Ring also thought very highly of Wilde's punching prowless, as they ranked him as the 3rd greatest P4P puncher of all-time a few years back (in their fairly recent "100 Greatest Punchers" issue).

[Sweat]

Most sources say that Villa actually had a wisdom tooth extracted the morning of his non-title fight against Jimmy McLarnin, and the resulting infection, which ended up being in Villa's throat, hadn't showed up til a copy of days later when it was discovered by a the same dentist who initially pulled the tooth (Villa also had a few more teeth extracted during that followup visit). It was about a week and a half after facing McLarnin when Villa died, as the throat infection just got worse, and by the time Villa was checked into a hospital, it had already gotten to the point where nothing could be done about it...Poor guy!

maybe he got the mouth infection disease from the british Jimmy Wilde. just playing.

[Yogi]

maybe he got the mouth infection disease from the british Jimmy Wilde. just playing.

Gitouttahere!

[Sweat]

Gitouttahere!

i was just playing man. dont get too excited.

[Yogi]

i was just playing man. dont get too excited.

I know you were, bro, and so was I.