Jim Jacobs

[Caractacus]

[bennie]

Interesting footage. The giant golliwog poster certainly dates it. Terry Downes looks like the man loosening up in the gym. Jose Torres is a stocky, aggressive, dangerous fighter in the classic D'Amato mould.

[Caractacus]

an early Jim Jacobs documentary that was sold to television.
It premiered on syndicated Television ,Monday September.24.1962
( the day before the fight with Sonny Liston)
(Floyd Patterson was paid "one dollar" to be interviewed for it)
A monetery dispute over it, led to the break-up between Cus D'Amato and Patterson.

[Caractacus]

Here is a less clear, (but compleat) video of the 1962 TV programme.

[Caractacus]

-1986-

[goose 5]

Very interesting guy but he could be a total B.S. artist too.

[Caractacus]

In a 1966 interview, Cus D'Amato discribed Jim Jacobs.

"The more I studied this guy,
the more impressed I became.
He is extraordinary.
He not only has an excellent mind,
but a tremendous physique and stamina.
I have never met another athlete like him"

Cus also said he had only met two people who had the aura of a champion
like Jim did. Joe Louis and Sugar Ray Robinson.

[Caractacus]

[mikeycapp]

D' Amato was in fact so impressed with heralded Hand Ball Champion Jimmy Jacobs Physical Alacrity and Physique that he suggested that he himself "Cus D' Amato" train Jacobs to face Light Heavyweight Champion during the time period Archie Moore. The fight never materialized but apparently D' Amato had believed that based on Jacobs skills he might have given Archie a go. This story was shared with me by the late Fight Film Collector Sal Rappa who was very good friends with Jimmy Jacobs.

[Jeff_lacy_ko]

Is it true he and cus were lovers?

[Caractacus]

yeah, lovers of "Fistiana" like most of us who post on here.

[evrenb]

D' Amato was in fact so impressed with heralded Hand Ball Champion Jimmy Jacobs Physical Alacrity and Physique that he suggested that he himself "Cus D' Amato" train Jacobs to face Light Heavyweight Champion during the time period Archie Moore. The fight never materialized but apparently D' Amato had believed that based on Jacobs skills he might have given Archie a go. This story was shared with me by the late Fight Film Collector Sal Rappa who was very good friends with Jimmy Jacobs.

Hi Mike. I didn't know Sal passed. May he rest in peace.

[Caractacus]

-1964-

[Caractacus]

Did you know that Jim Jacobs was also an avid comic collector too ?
Reportedly he owned two warehouses in L.A, that contained a at least one copy
of every comic ever published.

[Caractacus]

-1988-

[Caractacus]

this half hour show produced by Jim Jacobs, had been syndicated to various television stations
across the USA, the day before the first Patterson vrs Liston fight.
-1963-

[Caractacus]

check out this really in-depth 1966 article about Jim Jacobs.

https://vault.si.com/vault/1966/03/07/r ... e-greatest

[Caractacus]

-1968-

[Jimmy2025]

^^^^^^^
I'd always heard about Jimmy Jacobs being a handball player but never looked into it. Didn't realise it wasn't handball as the rest of the world knows it but squash without a racquet. First time I've ever seen that game, was it/is it a big deal in the USA?

[goose 5]

It's called 4 wall handball.

[Caractacus]

It kind of looked like Jai-Alai without those expensive looking rackets.
BTW do they still play stickball in the streets of New York City much anymore ?

[Caractacus]

Is it recorded as to where Jim Jacobs and Bill Cayton had kept the fight films over the years ?
Did they make duplicates of all the various fight films that they had collected
and stored them in another location ?

[Caractacus]

[Caractacus]

[Caractacus]

Another one of Mike Tyson's co-managers was Steve Lott who by the way had also been a handball champion in 1975.
-2012-