58 Years Ago Today...

[BroughtonRulesRefuge]

So, once again BRR's 'evidence' turns out to be hogwash.

- I thought I gave my little stray puppy a new home. Has little collie slipped his leash again?

The beeb link as anyone with a schoolboy's grasp of elementary school English can understand clearly indicates that Dirs compiled the results of the BBC Sport votes and put together the article.

Oh, mummy is gonna be steamed to find her little collie's got loose and frolicking down at the hogwash pond again.

[kikibalt]

On paper yes. But when the circumstances are taken into account I reckon Honeyghan's defeat of Curry rates higher

No way!! what're you thinking?

[Collins2000]

So, once again BRR's 'evidence' turns out to be hogwash.

The beeb link as anyone with a schoolboy's grasp of elementary school English can understand clearly indicates that Dirs compiled the results of the BBC Sport votes and put together the article.

Where does it say Dirs listing is compiled from other peoples votes?

By the way, are you British?

I seem to detect a whiff of lavender in your posts.

[Flump]

So, once again BRR's 'evidence' turns out to be hogwash.

- I thought I gave my little stray puppy a new home. Has little collie slipped his leash again?

The beeb link as anyone with a schoolboy's grasp of elementary school English can understand clearly indicates that Dirs compiled the results of the BBC Sport votes and put together the article.

Oh, mummy is gonna be steamed to find her little collie's got loose and frolicking down at the hogwash pond again.

Very much doubt that you'd get a list like that from a public vote otherwise you'd have a much worse list in truth, it must be the guy's personal choice, whoever he is.

[granberry]

..i saw the film of robinson/turpin #1 in a movie theatre a day or two after the fight. best fight film of a fight that went the distance i've ever seen..before or since. no highlights...just the full three rounds..PLUS the minute in between!

like most of us over here in the colonies i had never seen turpin. i have a fairly clear memory of him first, i was impressed by his physical strength. also, he had an unusual style and a smart one to use against the sugar man. robby started adapting to that style in the late rounds, but it was too late and turpin had control all the way.

I never understood how Turpin made the middleweight limit.

He looked more like a lightheavy to me.

Notice Robinson had trouble with two types of fighters---

Those as tall and taller than he was---Tommy Bell, Turpin, Maxim, etc

and 160-pounders who were as strong as a 200 pounder---La Motta, Fullmer, Tiger Jones, etc

Turpin had some of each characteristic.

[jaclem2]

..good point...when you see them together turpin looks as if he's in a higher weight class. so damn strong and so strong LOOKING.

re: the height factor...srr didn't fight many guys as tall as he was, at least not as a welterweight. i think henry brimm was tall and he once held robinson to a draw.

george costner was an even six feet....but he made the mistake of calling himself "sugar" and robinson bombed him out twice in the first round.