Will Peter Buckley get to 300

Old bones Ian · Post by **Old bones Ian** » 21 Jun 2007, 09:23

bennie wrote:
Old bones Ian wrote:quick quiz, name the all time great who finished on 299 fights
Greb.

correct, Harry Greb

http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=9019

Coco · Post by **Coco** » 21 Jun 2007, 09:42

I presume NWS is a newspaper decision

How did this work?

bennie · Post by **bennie** » 22 Jun 2007, 09:59

Coco wrote:I presume NWS is a newspaper decision

How did this work?

Not very well. 'Newspaper' decisions were simply no-decisions. It was left to people to judge the better man in newspaper reports.

Coco · Post by **Coco** » 22 Jun 2007, 10:01

bennie wrote:
Coco wrote:I presume NWS is a newspaper decision

How did this work?
Not very well. 'Newspaper' decisions were simply no-decisions. It was left to people to judge the better man in newspaper reports.

Was that because there were no judges or was it actually scored a NC, and people made their opinions afterwards?

bennie · Post by **bennie** » 22 Jun 2007, 10:03

Coco wrote:
bennie wrote:
Coco wrote:I presume NWS is a newspaper decision

How did this work?
Not very well. 'Newspaper' decisions were simply no-decisions. It was left to people to judge the better man in newspaper reports.
Was that because there were no judges or was it actually scored a NC, and people made their opinions afterwards?

Boxing was banned in so many states in America, no-decision fights were classed as exhibitions and could thus be staged.

jamesmcdonnell · Post by **jamesmcdonnell** » 22 Jun 2007, 11:07

Yes, correct me if I am wrong, but I thought a newspaper decision meant that they canvassed the sports writers and that an 'unofficial' decision was given based on a poll of the newspapers in attendance.

bennie · Post by **bennie** » 22 Jun 2007, 11:16

It wasn't a case of a show of hands at the end; it was the better report(s) in the days when newspapers were the only real source of information and sold by the bucketload.
Just to show that nothing really changes, local newspapers favoured local fighters and many reporters were bribed (Primo Carnera's management bribed reporters, for example).