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Anyone know how many boxers at one time use to be Blacksmith's?

Bob Fitzsimmons did

Also how many years were each involved in the trade?

Les Darcy was a blacksmith before becoming a fighter.

A 1920s and 1930s journeyman light-heavyweight named Frankie Wine worked as blacksmith when he was a teenager in Roundup, Montana before his fighting career began and in the vicinity of Barberton, Ohio after it ended.

- Chuck Johnston

"The Chatteris Thunderbolt" - Eric Boon

Joe Choynski was a blacksmith at one time.
Al Kaufmann who fought Jack Johnson was also a blacksmith.

Tom Heeney who fought Gene Tunney was a blacksmith from New Zealand.

Did you forget to log in as somebody else this time before answering your own question?

gp. wrote:Did you forget to log in as somebody else this time before answering your own question?

and Why dont you try shutting yur pie-hole (until you have something to say about olde tyme boxing)

Caractacus wrote:

gp. wrote:Did you forget to log in as somebody else this time before answering your own question?

and Why dont you try shutting yur pie-hole (until you have something to say about olde tyme boxing)

Because I find it far more entertaining to mock the way you start threads then adopt a different character to respond when it's clear nobody gives a fornicate about them. Why don't you try shutting your multiple pie-holes that you can't seem to stop opening 100 times a day, even after you've been banned for being an annoying fantasist and liar?

Oh yeah,just another non-boxing post attack on a ligetimit poster here again in this thread
Tuan_Jim,err I mean gp
Did you go off your meds some time back?
Like u 2 arnt the same person.
Even Ray Charles could see that.
Double your trolling,double yur fun?
Now please try and add something here to boxers who were former blacksmiths
(even tho I doubt you can).

and of course the great Jim J. Jeffries aka 'The Boilermaker"
had been a blacksmith as a youth.'

Caractacus wrote:Oh yeah,just another non-boxing post attack on a ligetimit poster here again in this thread
Tuan_Jim,err I mean gp
Did you go off your meds some time back?
Like u 2 arnt the same person.
Even Ray Charles could see that.
Double your trolling,double yur fun?
Now please try and add something here to boxers who were former blacksmiths
(even tho I doubt you can).

Barking up the wrong tree there. I don't even much like Conrad.

Are you going to deny that you are Il Duce the racist idiot liar?

Must have had powerful right hands.

Make me wonder if back in the day their jobs were their conditioning.

Today, athletes hire strength and conditioning coaches. Back then, life was strength and conditioning.

gp. wrote:

Caractacus wrote:Oh yeah,just another non-boxing post attack on a ligetimit poster here again in this thread
Tuan_Jim,err I mean gp
Did you go off your meds some time back?
Like u 2 arnt the same person.
Even Ray Charles could see that.
Double your trolling,double yur fun?
Now please try and add something here to boxers who were former blacksmiths
(even tho I doubt you can).

Barking up the wrong tree there. I don't even much like Conrad.

Are you going to deny that you are Il Duce the racist idiot liar?

Hey Boxbuzz,this/these guy(s) at it again with the race baiting schtick.
They're starting to bug me.
What are you going to do about it?

the light-heavyweight Tiger Jack Fox from Indiana was also a blacksmith.

It would be interesting to know which boxing contenders or champions were
the last to have been blacksmiths,as that trade has almost vanished oveer the past decades.

fidel castro smith.

Harry Matthews wasnt a blacksmith but his Dad was.
although he probably tinkered with it when he was young tho.

There is a difference between being a blacksmith and a blacksmith's apprentice.
I was just wondering how many years one had to be doing it
before it became a real assett to one boxing or if you did it too long if it hindered one's ability.

Caractacus wrote:

gp. wrote:

Caractacus wrote:Oh yeah,just another non-boxing post attack on a ligetimit poster here again in this thread
Tuan_Jim,err I mean gp
Did you go off your meds some time back?
Like u 2 arnt the same person.
Even Ray Charles could see that.
Double your trolling,double yur fun?
Now please try and add something here to boxers who were former blacksmiths
(even tho I doubt you can).

Barking up the wrong tree there. I don't even much like Conrad.

Are you going to deny that you are Il Duce the racist idiot liar?

Hey Boxbuzz,this/these guy(s) at it again with the race baiting schtick.
They're starting to bug me.
What are you going to do about it?

You really want to get the mods involved? Really?

Incidentally saying Il Duce is a racist is not "race-baiting". You clearly don't understand the term, along with an awful lot of other terms.

Besides the fact that if you're not Il Duce, it isn't even directed at you. But you are, so it is.

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