In my opinion Jake walks through Rocky and Zale and thats why they never met! Rocky and Tony had a good thing going and promoters and matchmakers don't step on one another. I'm pretty sure the folks on this thread are not aware of the fact that Jake was a "feared" opponent! It makes no difference if anyone thinks his "skill" level wasn't as high as others the bottom line is he ducked no one that was in his way and he had to lement to the powers to be to get his shot. He fought his way to the top but got stopped unless he did business! Zale was a cut above Rocky but neither of them could deal with Jake the guy was an animal and thats not like Tysons bravado, Lamotta was a brutal man in the ring!!!
Remember the fighters then weren't affected by looses unless you got stopped then you sat out for 30 days/tko or 60 to 90 fore a KO! That was very important to their incomes because they were "full time" fighters. Even the headliners fought twice a month if not once a week! Being stopped was a tuff time in the pocket. Sugar was known to take care of some opponents as long as they didn't get to full of themselves and tried to take him out!!
Pep was another guy who helped alot of young fighters step up from 6 & 8 rounders to 10 round semi's and then hopefully main go. You'd better not cross these guys and try to stop them, you could do your damnedest to out score or out hustle but if you go to hurt them then they kick your butt!
My cousin fought Pep in the garden and they were gonna box 10 and give a great showing, he got ****y and Pep closed the show on him. Pep told the story better than my cousin did but it was the same outcome from both storytellers hahaha! Ray.
Remember the fighters then weren't affected by looses unless you got stopped then you sat out for 30 days/tko or 60 to 90 fore a KO! That was very important to their incomes because they were "full time" fighters. Even the headliners fought twice a month if not once a week! Being stopped was a tuff time in the pocket. Sugar was known to take care of some opponents as long as they didn't get to full of themselves and tried to take him out!!
Pep was another guy who helped alot of young fighters step up from 6 & 8 rounders to 10 round semi's and then hopefully main go. You'd better not cross these guys and try to stop them, you could do your damnedest to out score or out hustle but if you go to hurt them then they kick your butt!
My cousin fought Pep in the garden and they were gonna box 10 and give a great showing, he got ****y and Pep closed the show on him. Pep told the story better than my cousin did but it was the same outcome from both storytellers hahaha! Ray.
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