[w;dkm ckeqfjq c]

I thought of this while watching Patterson vs Johansson yesterday. Patterson went down 7 times in round three before the ref waved the fight up. Crazy stuff, if that fight were in modern times it'd have been stopped after the first knock down.

 

[Chatty]

Jimmy Britt from up here was once put down 21 times in the first round, can't remember who he fought. He won by KO.

 

[w;dkm ckeqfjq c]

Jimmy Britt from up here was once put down 21 times in the first round, can't remember who he fought. He won by KO.

Wow! That's crazy! Obviously the fight would be stopped in modern times but can you picture that scorecard? 10 - (-12) round for the other guy haha

 

[Danny]

Wow! That's crazy! Obviously the fight would be stopped in modern times but can you picture that scorecard? 10 - (-12) round for the other guy haha

Getting back to your stool after 1 round and being told you need a knockout to win would be soul-destroying.

 

[w;dkm ckeqfjq c]

Getting back to your stool after 1 round and being told you need a knockout to win would be soul-destroying.

That's like something out of the corner talk in Fight Night

 

[Michael]

Floyd's chin >

 

[hhascup]

Here's 8 knockdowns by Marcel cerdan vs José Ferrer

 

[hhascup]

Here's 8 knockdowns by Marcel cerdan vs José Ferrer

Also, Danny O'Sullivan vs Vic Toweel.
Johannesburg, S. Africa, Dec-1950. English Bantamweight O'Sullivan was down eight times in the fifth round during this Bantamweight title fight; however he managed to continue before retiring in the tenth. Toweel was reported as saying he could not belief his opponent kept getting up.

 

[Lunny]

Jimmy Britt from up here was once put down 21 times in the first round, can't remember who he fought. He won by KO.

That is insane. His footwork must have been so shit!

But then a lot of old timers look real dodgy on the fundamentals like that. Like you'll see Dempsey falling on the ground trying to punch his opponents. Suppose it was a different sport back then.

 

[bask]

Like you'll see Dempsey falling on the ground trying to punch his opponents. Suppose it was a different sport back then.

At the start of the Firpo fight?

Dempsey lunges with a left hook, Firpo steps out of distance and throws a counter right that drops Dempsey to one knee - the way it has been edited removes Dempsey receiving a count.

If not this incident, which one are you referring to? Be interested to watch it.

 

[Lunny]

At the start of the Firpo fight?

Dempsey lunges with a left hook, Firpo steps out of distance and throws a counter right that drops Dempsey to one knee - the way it has been edited removes Dempsey receiving a count.

If not this incident, which one are you referring to? Be interested to watch it.

You'd know far more than me on the subject. Yeah, pretty sure I was thinking of the Firpo fight, just looked like he fell over in the vid, thanks for clearing it up for me.

 

[bask]

Yeah that editing on that video (of one I've seen) almost attempts to hide the knockdown from the fight.

Unless you know Dempsey goes down early, understandably could quite easily miss it.

 

[john garfield]

My memory fails me, but think there was a New England lightweight (skinny as a rail, but a helluva knockout puncher, with lots of bottle), who got dropped ten or eleven times for nine-counts in one round against Jimmy Carter for the title.

Even the home-town fans were shouting to stop the slaughter.

 

[johnmaff36]

Did i read somewhere that joe louis got dropped 6 times in his first ever fight (the Ams)?