jim jacobs

[BattlingNelson]

Jacobs was considered the best in the World at one point!!!

At what? Collecting fight films?

[BattlingNelson]

I don't even think the US has a handballteam at all anyway.

[BattlingNelson]

Hmmm.... We are probably talking about 2 different sports. There's handball and then there's handball. Just as there's football and then there's football.

[miamike]

Never heard that rumour and since the source apparently says that Jacobs was the best handball player in the world, that just about ensures that it's made-up.

He won a whole bunch of titles

[SBleeder]

They did put some of them out for awhile. It was back in the vhs days and they did it under the name Big Fights Inc. They made some money but nowhere near the money Clayton made off espn selling the whole collection. Now ESPN hoards them only airing the same 20-30 fights that Big Fights Inc released years ago.

ESPN has close to 20,000 fights, many of them have not been seen since they originally happened.

It saddens me but Espn is now sitting on all those old msg fights as well as the early years of top rank boxing that had many amazing cards. Mean while ESPN Classic is content airing Tyson knocking out Steve Zouski over and over and over again.

Poor Steve Zouski.

ESPN On Demand currently is showing "Classic Butterbean".

[AntonTheMeh]

They did put some of them out for awhile. It was back in the vhs days and they did it under the name Big Fights Inc. They made some money but nowhere near the money Clayton made off espn selling the whole collection. Now ESPN hoards them only airing the same 20-30 fights that Big Fights Inc released years ago.

ESPN has close to 20,000 fights, many of them have not been seen since they originally happened.

It saddens me but Espn is now sitting on all those old msg fights as well as the early years of top rank boxing that had many amazing cards. Mean while ESPN Classic is content airing Tyson knocking out Steve Zouski over and over and over again.

Poor Steve Zouski.

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[greynotsoold]

The story about the Moore fight is true; at least, I read it years ago in an interview with D'Amato. He believed that he could study Moore's style and train a guy to beat it, provided that the guy was a good enough athelete. Jim jacobs was considered the best handball player in the world at the time and was a boxing fan, so he was the guy. I think the reason it never happened is that Jacobs came to his senses.
By the way, Jim Jacobs was born and raise in the part of LA that is now considered Watts, if my memory is correct, though it might have been a bit north, in South-Central.

[rightsideup]

The story about the Moore fight is true; at least, I read it years ago in an interview with D'Amato. He believed that he could study Moore's style and train a guy to beat it, provided that the guy was a good enough athelete. Jim jacobs was considered the best handball player in the world at the time and was a boxing fan, so he was the guy. I think the reason it never happened is that Jacobs came to his senses.
By the way, Jim Jacobs was born and raise in the part of LA that is now considered Watts, if my memory is correct, though it might have been a bit north, in South-Central.

A very interesting man I also believe he had the world's most valuable comic book collection.

[The Iron Man]

I never heard of Jacobs as a trainer. But I have long been envious of his fight collection. Clayton later sold it to espn after Jacobs passed and espn just sits on it releasing very little to the public.

Big Fights inc is still being run by Steve Lott isn't it?. He uploads some nice footage on his youtube channel. Not sure how much of the old collection he still has though but he also started up a boxing museum.

[Anthony342]

They did put some of them out for awhile. It was back in the vhs days and they did it under the name Big Fights Inc. They made some money but nowhere near the money Clayton made off espn selling the whole collection. Now ESPN hoards them only airing the same 20-30 fights that Big Fights Inc released years ago.

ESPN has close to 20,000 fights, many of them have not been seen since they originally happened.

It saddens me but Espn is now sitting on all those old msg fights as well as the early years of top rank boxing that had many amazing cards. Mean while ESPN Classic is content airing Tyson knocking out Steve Zouski over and over and over again.

Poor Steve Zouski.

Why? Do they think people won't watch the other fights they have? Why buy them and not air them? And if they never air them, will they be lost forever or would any other collectors out there have them?