Ike Williams vs. Beau Jack_480712_480712

boxing vid.

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Sports

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• Ike
• Williams
• Beau
• Jack

[flashingswords]

This was a championship fight (the champion being Williams who was the eventual winner) and was therefore very serious business. As a rule, the referee was not expected to halt the fight unless he was absolutely certain that it was over.

[hdog505]

stupid ref.

[wtw88]

Williams was forced by an inept referee to hit Beau Jack 10 - 12 times more than necessary.

If you look at the ref through the fight he's walking around like a Prima Donna, not really concentrating on what the fighters are up to - far more preoccupied with how he looks to the crowd and the boxing board - making it look as if he's looking. He's an idiot.

[bojack335]

@86pimp3 i think it could have been different on a different day

[shootthewave]

i think the ref done a good job throughout the fight ie LETTING them fight rather than continually getting between them . he did fuck up at the end though, he should have stopped it a few seconds earlier

[123456789024814]

why is the video in Japanese?

[ThePanzerfist44]

Beau Jack was so popular during the war years he sold out madison square garden on seven consecutive occasions - a record that was never broken while the old garden still stood - a lot was made about him ending up shining shoes later in life - but the truth came out when peter heller interviewed his family manyyears later - he had dozens of tailor made suits , owned a nice house and had money in the bank - he went back to shining shoes because he said it was honest work - legendary fighter

[andy29375]

Beau Jack actually got beaten because he broke Ike's tooth! Ike was desperate when he realised and launched into the attack to stop further damage to himself. But he was dismayed at the Ref's lateness in stopping the fight. Look at the point of knockout, he turned to the Ref asking if he wanted him to actually kill Jack!! Two AMAZING champions that define Boxing!!

[DeeNice681]

Dumb ass ref.

[Lomas3000]

When Beau Jack was asked about the stoppage I think he said summat to the effect: "late stoppage?? Im Beau Jack to beat me you have to kill me or nail me to the canvass!"

[isafella1]

bleeding hearts on here with their modern day standards , this is how it was back then , christ this was the era when you could drop atom bombs on cities and no one cared , its just how it was . blokes who quit in the ring never got payed half the time or got the chance to make good money ever again.

[chisacat]

On watching this as an old man on a HBO special beau jack was asked what he thought of the ref letting him get hit like that , he said " I 'm Beau jack , to beat me you have to kill me where I.m standing " pure class from a true warrior of the ring.