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a book a lot of you are familiar with i know....some great pieces in it...
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like...gunboat smith..
On fighting Willard:
"With Willard, after I threw my best punch at him his hair wiggled a little bit. Thats all. I said 'Holy Jesus, that was my best punch. No detours, right from the floor, right on his chin.' I says 'Wait a minute, I'll have to try that again.' I tried it again. Nothing happened. And he hit me with a right hand uppercut, by God, he cracked a couple of ribs in me."
"So in the tenth round I hit him with one of my right hands, but it was on the ear. Tore his ear right off. That hushed him up for the rest of the fight. The blood was running down, and oh God, I, of course, had my gloves "loaded." I had insulation tape laid across my hands."
On training with Johnson:
Jack Johnson told me when he was fighting Ketchel - in those days he was almost human, you could talk with him - he says "I'll quit before I take a beating."
On fighting Langford:
"Then I came back to Boston and I took on Sam Langford. I beat him that time, but I was never no good after it. Every time that Langford hit me, by God, he'd break the shoelaces. I got the decision. I was tickled to death to get the hell out of there."
On refereeing Schmelling vs Sharkey:
"He was the heaviest, shortest puncher I ever saw, Max Schmelling. He could hit like a bastard."
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like...gunboat smith..
On fighting Willard:
"With Willard, after I threw my best punch at him his hair wiggled a little bit. Thats all. I said 'Holy Jesus, that was my best punch. No detours, right from the floor, right on his chin.' I says 'Wait a minute, I'll have to try that again.' I tried it again. Nothing happened. And he hit me with a right hand uppercut, by God, he cracked a couple of ribs in me."
"So in the tenth round I hit him with one of my right hands, but it was on the ear. Tore his ear right off. That hushed him up for the rest of the fight. The blood was running down, and oh God, I, of course, had my gloves "loaded." I had insulation tape laid across my hands."
On training with Johnson:
Jack Johnson told me when he was fighting Ketchel - in those days he was almost human, you could talk with him - he says "I'll quit before I take a beating."
On fighting Langford:
"Then I came back to Boston and I took on Sam Langford. I beat him that time, but I was never no good after it. Every time that Langford hit me, by God, he'd break the shoelaces. I got the decision. I was tickled to death to get the hell out of there."
On refereeing Schmelling vs Sharkey:
"He was the heaviest, shortest puncher I ever saw, Max Schmelling. He could hit like a bastard."
