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Brutu wrote:check out a really good and recent(September 2011) interview with Jack O'Halloran
at this web page.Maybe the best interview of him I have read so far,particullary his boxing career.
(but instead of the word spam at the url below, type in the word b-l-o-g-s-p-o-t.
(one word)

http://www.jeffcramer.blogspot.com/2011 ... -jack.html

Im not sure if this is the other thread that you mean matkot,but I bumped it up anyway.
He did publish his book finally,but its not actually a biography like I had anticipated.

here is a recent brief interview with him to promote his book.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1Kov4dJoOw

beaujack wrote:

jaclem2 wrote:...o'halloran had the same glandular disorder as primo carnera...jess willard and possibly abe simon.

I don't think Primo Carnera had any "glandular disorder" as O'halloran and Abe Simon.. Carnera in his day was described as a Giant ,with perfect proportions for his size. Amazingly muscled for such a big man,who could scoot around the ring for a man of 260 pounds...

Carnera had acromegalic features, but imho he never had it. His body never got any broader, denser, thicker, as time went on. Pituitary surgery was in in its infancy then, and Carnera certainly would have died between the age of 20-40 had he actually had it. The body grows so much that the immune system cannot fight off infections and common colds and inflammations. That's why Robert Wadlow, for example, died from a simple blister on his ankle at age 22. Another telling fact and reason why I don't believe Carnera, Willard, Simon, etc didn't have the disorder is the fact that the body grows at such a rate that muscles never adapt to the structure. While these individuals are big, and look wickedly strong, they are in fact very weak and off balance individuals. That's why I think someone like Nicolae Valuev had acromegaly, because over time he began wearing knee braces and was getting less mobile as time went on and retired relatively young, rather than go for bigger paydays against Vitali Klitschko and others.

O'Halloran on the other hand, I am not sure of his status as far as having a pituitary disorder goes, but if his bio rings true he didn't have it either; because it says he lacked power, and then built himself up with weights and became stronger. And as I stated before, if you really had acromegaly or gigantism, you wouldn't be able to do this and it last. The only true acromegalic's I know of in boxing history, where there is irrefutable evidence, were Jim Cully, John Rankin, Gogea Mitu, and that African heavyweight Edwardt (whose last name I can't bring myself to type) who fought James J. Parker during Marciano's title reign. You can argue, also, that possibly American title claimer Charles Freeman was acromegalic, though descriptions of his agility and prodigous strength goes against the disease characteristics.

hey HH,here is some brief footage of Jack Ohalloran fighting Ron Lyle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_czQ8l89Ts

Brutu wrote:hey HH,here is some brief footage of Jack Ohalloran fighting Ron Lyle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_czQ8l89Ts

Will have to check this out. I cant imagine him doing much with Lyle though. What year was this?

Also, before my mind switches gears, another acromegalic that I know of who boxed was 'Big' Ben Wray, who Jack Dempsey fought in an exhibition prior to fighting Tommy Gibbons. Wray was 7'2" and reputedly was 4-0-0 on the East coast, but Dempsey kayoed him (breaking his jaw in the process) in less than 60 seconds.

oh,we know of Jack O'Halloran.

all the info you need to know about "terrifying" Jack O'Halloran should be in this thread here.

dempseyfire wrote: ↑01 Mar 2010, 16:05 I don't get how a guy who reportedly had an epic war with Norton, knocked out Daniels and Ramos, decisioned (an old) Williams and Clark; then loses to the likes of Charlie Harris, Johnny Griffin, and KO'd by Jack Bodell . .

He didn't know it at the time but he had acromegaly which is a progressive disease.

From what I saw, the man just didn't have much in the way of laser focus.

Jack O'Halloran sounds a lot like Gerry Cooney in his tone of voice and deliverery of speech there huh ?

https://www.books.google.com/books?id=R ... pg=PA49&dq

Horizontal like in this photograph ?

https://www.books.google.com/books?id=R ... pg=PA49&dq

he should maybe write his autobiography with an emphisis on his boxing career.

hey HH,here is some brief footage of Jack O'Halloran fighting Ron Lyle.

Non. Brilliant acting job.

Emil Muzz. Even better.

Jack O'Halloran was originally going to play "Jaws" in the James Bond film
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) but the part went to Richard Kiel.
who ironically was going to play "Moose Malloy" in FAREWELL MY LOVELY(1975)
but Robert Mitchum wanted Jack O'Halloran to play the role and he did.

Caractacus wrote: ↑31 Jul 2021, 13:38 hey HH,here is some brief footage of Jack O'Halloran fighting Ron Lyle.

Nice