Nobody wins because there is no proof. And Butterfly, the same case can be made for many fighters like Ali being scared for not fighting someone, you can't just say he was scared of Jackson, it was a diffirent boxing world back then.
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- -Today we're down to microagressions of a word that didn't exist in JL day.Originally posted by butterfly1964 View Post
How about nano aggressions?Comment
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Sullivan didn't have the muscles to beat some boys I've known, by buggery!Comment
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Sullivan gets credit in both directions when really he's from an era of figuring it out.
Donaldson fight, LPRR or QB ?
How about McCaffrey? That's a clear cut QB match right? I mean right in the cliff notes it say QB rules....also this:
The popular feeling to-day as yesterday is unanimously in favor of McCaffrey. Prize-fighters and pugilists are almost to a man sympathizers with Sullivan. They say if McCaffrey had stood up and fought he would have been knocked out in the third round. Nearly all the reporters here counted seven rounds, and the few who made six rounds say that the third round was split into two rounds by someone not authorized calling time, which mistake was corrected. Peter J. Donahue, the timekeeper, says this was all a mistake, but in the fifth round, when McCaffrey was down, Murphy, Sullivan's friend, called time, thinking he had lain ten seconds, when he had been knocked down but seven seconds, whereupon the referee put the men in their corners. The last he says he added the last round. The there is the misapprehension about the grounds of the award of victory of Sullivan. The masses supposed McCaffrey would be declared the winner if he stood up during six rounds, which he did magnificently. But the fact is the decision had to be outside of fighting rules to be within the laws of Ohio. It was ostensibly an athletic contest with gloves, and under Ohio laws this had to be decided in favor of the man who made the most points to keep it out of the category of prize-fighting. Sullivan gets all the net receipts. The gross receipts are said to be about $10,000, of which Chester park management gets a small per cent.
Era of figuring **** out.Comment
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