sharkeysboy wrote:If you mean Jersey Joe, the heavyweight, there's about a dozen of his fights on films. If you mean Barbados Joe, the welterweight, I don't think so.
I'd say that there probably is a fight, or two for Walcott. His 1904 bout with Joe Gans in San Francisco was a prime candidate to film at the time, but I am guessing.
The only footage of Joe Wolcatt is of him being interviewed when he was an old man working as an usher. He discusses his fight with Joe Choynski and a couple of other things. Its pretty sad.
I was hoping that something exsisted and was actually pretty optimistic that one, or two fights were filmed...he was truly one of the tragic figures that boxing has been so numerous in producing. I guess it's the rags to riches back to rags that make most feel sympathy, although it's hard for me to feel bad for a fighter like Tyson who has went through 300+ million, however the early fighters, many did not make anything to start with, but Walcott had a very successful career. Like so many other early boxers, Walcott lead a very interesting life!
