The Greatest British Boxer Of All Time

This is a tribute to one of the greatest pound-forpound boxers in the sports history and the greatest British prizefighter of all time!

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[RapedByRepublicans]

Thank you sir/mam

[RapedByRepublicans]

@kelletman an ink of wilde sits on my left and an ink of ketchel sits on my right, i only aspire to their greatness (I should've given wilde my right, cos he's my favorite, at least over ketchel, but... ketchel had a right from hell, wilde wasjust gooder'n a motherfucker...). Well, where are the ends of these interviews, are these the only snippets o f film? Why? we have hollywood from this era...

[davethemouse1]

music?

[TheGREATEST95]

he would fuck up everyone now people say oldern boxers didnt have the technique i think if they were here now they could of just learnt it or i reckon there technique was better the would actually fight boxers today dont start fighting till around the 5th round and thats just a flop and as soon as they start fighting the ref stops it

[kelletman]

just a few, he beat all the best bantamweights and top British featherweight Joe Conn. Conn, who a class 126-pounder, he was ranked the 3rd hardest puncher by rindside magazine, winning 99 fights by KO. He was only 5ft 2 inch, but very few boxers stood taller than him, if any.

[kelletman]

Jimmy Wilde Record as a fighter was outstanding, he won his title when just 98Ib He beat every flyweight & bantamweight of note:Tancy Lee (Flyweight champion),Johnny Hughes (ex bantamweight champ), Young Jennings (ex Flyweight champion),Joe Symonds (ex bantamweight champion),Tommy Noble (ex bantamweight champion and well known in America)Sid Smith (ex Flyweight champion), along with men such as Bouzini, Cullen, & Mansfield and he beat the tough black American flyweight Young Zulu Kid to name

[kelletman]

looked good against the great Pancho Villa in the opening rounds, A punch to the nap of the neck after the bell in round two was the turning point. The great trainer Ray Arcel, watching from ringside, had been impressed with J Wilds early form and felt that his corner men should have cried foul after Villa's blow.Arcel believed that a disqualification may have resulted or at least Wilde would have been given more time to recover, but that was not Jimmy's way.

[kelletman]

self. Jimmy fought for 17 rounds before being knocked out of the ring, it was said Jimmy suffererd severe concussion after cracking his head on the ringside floor, something he may never have never fully recoverd from, but after going into retirement, he then was offered a huge purse £13,000 to fight Pancho Villa, that was massive amount of money in those days. Jimmy had been out of the ring for 2 years 4 months and at 31 with so many fights on the clock was past his peak, yet he still looked

[kelletman]

J Wilde returning to Britain in 1920 he virtually retired from the ring as a conquering hero, but came out to fight Pete Herman, one of the great bantamweights of all time, who was said to have outweighed Jimmy Wilde by 19 pounds (as much as a featherweight 126 Ib). Jimmy was adviced not to take the fight, but the Prince of Wales was said to have persuaded Jimmy to fight, but Jimmy being Jimmy will have tuck little persuading as all his life he had been taking on men much bigger than him

[kelletman]

the Famous former editor of ‘The Ring’ Magazine and someone who had seen every boxer of any note from 1900s America up to his death in 1972 Nat Fleischer said of Wilde: ‘he was the greatest flyweight ever.’ To earn such an accolade from perhaps the most respected American boxing pundit of all time attests to Wilde’s undoubted greatness