Bob Fitzsimmons

Footage of crafty Bob Fitzsimmons, Heavyweight Champion, 1897-1899

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[cbaldwinjr]

This sounds like myth exceeding reality...something that often occurs with athletes before the advent of movies. I'm sure Fitzsimmons could punch in the way a Kelly Pavlik could punch. But like someone like that, you have to be able to hit your target. I HARDLY think his caliber of opponent would even REMOTELY compare to anything modern day. I love the hyperbole though. Sounds like the people who say Mike Tyson would knock out Jesus of Nazareth himself...if Rooney was in his corner still. SMDH

[jhs1958]

@cbaldwinjr - Yo is full of more shit than a Christmas turkey. In fact, YO is the turkey. Fitz would kill Ray Rob (who could not last against Maxim , the non-puncher).

[cbaldwinjr]

@jhs1958

Are you retarded? First off, I know you're not even old enough to have been alive in 1951. For two, it wasn't MAXIM who beat him, it was the 104 degree heat that caused the ref to collapse. Give Maxim credit for being in the shape of a Kenyan marathoner, but SRR was boxing his ears off when he ran out of steam in a literal steambath. To use THAT as your logic for a 19th century fighter who laid down like a dog against Jack Johnson to beat the GOAT...your sir, are an idiot.

[jhs1958]

@cbaldwinjr - Oh, I was alive and saw the fight. SRR didn't meet Maxim in a rematch, did he? Why not ? Fitz would whip SRR. SRR was 31 when he fought Maxim, a light-heavy. Fitz was 44 when he fought Johnson, a heavy. Fitz fought light-heavies and heavies most of his career (as a middleweight). SRR lost to Maxim, a non-puncher. Why no rematch if he was that much better? He fought mostly welters and middies.

[jhs1958]

@cbaldwinjr - Tyson is another joke. Squeekie looked great against pushovers but against the truly good ones - he farted out.

[jhs1958]

Fitz deserves to be on any all-time greats list. Modern writers rarely research back too far, rarely past the 1940s. Even when they do, they downgrade the skills of the past. Personally, I think boxing and baseball was better many years ago, even before the 1940s. Football and basketball is likely better. But, rules change so things like this are difficult to analyze or prove. Fitz would beat Sugar Ray.

[kcthatsawinner]

Fitzsimmons can whip Mike Tyson's arse 24/7/365 until Iron Mike is a bloody mess! If Fitzsimmons took on one of today's boxers,he'd win in less than 5 rounds! All hail Fitzsimmons,king of boxing!

[RockDempsey]

I heard he once faced a guy who weighed over 300 lbs. Bob rocked him with a few body shots and nailed him with a left hook to the chin to knock him out inside 2 rounds. I bet Fitzsimmons would have demolished the fat slobs in the heavyweight division today.

[theInfamousQB]

@jhs1958 I completely agree. In football and basketball, size is everything. People think its incredible when a "short" guy like Iverson (whos 6 foot) can be competitive. In baseball and boxing, experience and skill will always beat size, and that is something that the old schoolers had leaps and bounds more of than modern guys. Hundreds of fights worth of experience > 20 extra lbs of bulky muscle. Period.

[cbaldwinjr]

@jhs1958

Well if you had reading comprehension, you'd see that I said that BEFORE YOU pal. I acknowledged that people that love Tyson have no sense of reason or logic when arguing for him. I didn't say he was great.

[cbaldwinjr]

@jhs1958

HAHAHAHA! Bob Fitzsimmons would be Ray Robinson...wow, I have heard it all. HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!! Even if his wife implored him to 'hit him in the slats' like his wife allegedly said (and what a woman she was for it...) against Corbett...Fitzy would've gotten the hell beaten out of him by the GOAT, Sugar Ray Robinson.

[lee1990lee]

they say there was no man under 200 pounds that hit harder than fittzsimmons