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Posted: 21 Jun 2007, 09:23
by Old bones Ian
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
Posted: 21 Jun 2007, 09:42
by Coco
I presume NWS is a newspaper decision
How did this work?
Posted: 22 Jun 2007, 09:59
by bennie
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.
Posted: 22 Jun 2007, 10:01
by Coco
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?
Posted: 22 Jun 2007, 10:03
by bennie
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.
Posted: 22 Jun 2007, 11:07
by jamesmcdonnell
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.
Posted: 22 Jun 2007, 11:16
by bennie
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).