4/9. History of the Heavyweight Championship

History of the Heavyweight Boxing Championship documentary - 24 champions from John L. Sullivan to Muhammad Ali.

Part 4 Fights:

Gene Tunney - Jack Dempsey II
Jack Sharkey - Max Schmeling
Max Schmeling - Jack Sharkey II
Jack Sharkey - Primo Carnera
Primo Carnera - Max Baer

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• boxing
• documentary
• heavyweight
• championship
• legends
• linear
• champion
• history
• John
• L.
• Sullivan
• James
• J.
• Corbett
• Bob
• Fitzsimmons
• Jeffries
• Tommy
• Burns
• Jack
• Johnson
• Jess
• Willard
• Dempsey
• Gene
• Tunney
• Max
• Schmeling
• Sharkey
• Primo
• Carnera
• Baer
• Braddock
• Joe
• Louis
• Ezzard
• Charles
• Jersey
• Walcott
• Rocky
• Marciano
• Floyd
• Patterson
• Ingemar
• Johansson
• Sonny
• Liston
• Muhammad
• Ali
• Smokin
• Frazier
• George
• Foreman
• Leon
• Spinks

[akbarbaby]

The ref in Dempsey fight is burning in hell, with the devil sticking a hot fork up his ass...

[madmax8903]

The pre-Joe Louis thirties were similar to the situation now, except there was one champion. Many of the fights weren't all that and there was a bit of controversy about: Schmelling winning the title by calling Foul, his manager Joe Jacob's "We woz robbed!" after the rematch, Carnera's phantom uppercut against Sharkey, Baer's injured fist in the non-event against Braddock. The division needed the Tysonic force that was Louis to clean it up and bring back some excitement.

[LelandnSonya4eva]

Gene Tunney was one of the first technical fighters of his time. Big ups to him

[bigmoney749]

Say what you want about the long count, but the ref didn't do any damage. Dempsey didn't go to a neutral corner like he was supposed to it and might've cost him the fight. The ref should've waited for Tunney to go to a neutral corner as well, but it was of no consequence because Dempsey got up at the count of three and Tunney won by decision.

[EDAJIREC]

Primo Carnera was just like Valuev is now a sideshow novelty act that got beat everytime he got in the ring with a guy who knew how to deal with his size.

[herodot2]

@madmax8903

I guess I disagree with this. I find the alte 20s/early 30s actually rather exciting, with several legitimate contenders -- Schmeling, Sharkey, Baer, Loughran, Stribling, Uzcudun, Schaaf, Rikso, Levinsky -- fighting one another regulalry without any establishing clear dominance (though the first three stand out).

Today two un-charismatic fighters are dominating a field that is lacking depth, and as they are brothers they don't even fight one another.

[mario6279]

my personal favorite from that pre-modern era is Max Baer he killed frankie campbell with a punch to his jaw

[1kb3nt3g3k]

they dont actually they start counting when youre in the corner

[NightManiacs]

yes it was

dempsey's camp asked for this rule

[furypjr]

wait was this corner rule enabled in that fight? if it was then yeah i guess it was dempseys fault. but if there was no corner rule then it would be the refs fault since why would he need dempsey to go to the corner, when, dempsey was knocked out, he instantly started counting, not telling tunney to go to his corner.

[pugilistofpower]

Yes, but when Dempsey went down, the ref started counting before Tunney moved to the corner. That is why there is controversy.

[malkisern]

@NightManiacs like point counting fights instead of knockout result

but questioning by fans results is known from each sport.