BS: Worst prizefighter EVER?

Subject: RE: BS: Worst prizefighter EVER?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 Feb 07 - 03:16 PM

Yes. I did qualify what I said about Chuvalo. He was quite a good boxer. Pictures of his face after the fight with Ali gave the impression that he was a human punching bag, but yes, he gave Ali a very tough fight.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst prizefighter EVER?
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 24 Feb 07 - 03:11 PM

How did Chuvalo's name get into this? Isn't he the guy Ali said gave him the toughest fight of his career?

Subject: RE: BS: Worst prizefighter EVER?
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 24 Feb 07 - 03:10 PM

Well, not match him for the title but it sounds as if he'd do better in the ring.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst prizefighter EVER?
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 24 Feb 07 - 03:08 PM

No.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst prizefighter EVER?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 Feb 07 - 03:03 PM

AWRIGHT!!! LOL! Sounds like we have our man. Bruce "the Mouse" Strauss. What a contender!

But can Richard Dunn match "the Mouse"?

Subject: RE: BS: Worst prizefighter EVER?
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 24 Feb 07 - 02:59 PM

My "other half" says the answer is easy - Richard Dunn; although they have named a stadium in Bradford after him.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst prizefighter EVER?
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 24 Feb 07 - 02:38 PM

I don't know anything about boxing so I decided to look at some websites on it because, for some reason, this thread appealed to me - probably because my father boxed in his youth in the army (and he was very good apparently) and he always enjoyed the sport. This is one of the things I found.

"Ask a hundred guys in the fight game who's the worst active boxer and you'll hear a hundred different names. Ask who's the worst boxer of the past 25 years and you'll probably hear only one: Bruce "The Mouse" Strauss.

Now 48 and living in Omaha, Strauss is able to laugh about his dubious career in the ring. "I hold three boxing records that I am especially proud of," he says. "I've been knocked out on every continent except the North Pole. I have been knocked out more than any other fighter. And I am the losing participant in the world's shortest fight - 11 seconds, counting the 10-count." "

Subject: RE: BS: Worst prizefighter EVER?
From: kendall
Date: 24 Feb 07 - 02:20 PM

Maxie Rosenbloom

Subject: RE: BS: Worst prizefighter EVER?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 Feb 07 - 01:26 PM

Yes, well, I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek when I said that stuff.

Canada's George Chuvalo was a very, very tough and gritty boxer who served as a kind of punching bag for some more skillful fighters in the top echelon. A bit like Tex Cobb, I suppose.

I think it's kind of a shame they never put Woody Allen in the ring against Ali or Foreman. It would have been a short fight, but I bet a lot of people would have paid to watch it. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Worst prizefighter EVER?
From: heric
Date: 24 Feb 07 - 01:18 PM

Tex Cobb, I guess, but I don't want to insult him. No glass chin, and solid as a twenty ton boulder.

Subject: BS: Worst prizefighter EVER?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 Feb 07 - 01:09 PM

We all have our opinions about who was the best. Ali? Marciano? Joe Louis?

But who was the absolute worst? Who made it to the top ehelons, and had a shot at the title, but was absolutely the least capable ever to do so? Whose glass jaw would shatter if it encountered a ping pong ball? Whose footwork was as clumsy as a chimp on a hot tin roof? Whose punch almost never reached its intended target?