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On October 15, 1910, Stanley Ketchel was murdered. Had Stanley not been murdered. ------------

1. How much longer do you think Ketchel would have fought professionally?


2. How do you think Stanley would have done in the ring?



3. Do you think Stanley Ketchel would have scaled even higher heights in boxing?

Such as what Carlos Monzon and Marvin Hagler scaled?




Please explain.

Considering he had moved to Missouri in order to retire from boxing and start ranching, just a week or so before his murder gave an interview detailing how he hadn't been right since being knocked out by Johnson and suffered terrible headaches from it, was supposedly suffering from syphilis and opium addiction, and had been involved in a couple of fixes/proposed fixes just prior to his "retirement" Id say he was at the end of his rope. He lived hard and played hard and it was catching up to him. Besides, by the time he died just around the corner you had a massive influx of talented guys like Dillon, Gibbons, Clabby, McGoorty, Klaus (who had already beaten him bad enough in six rounds in Pittsburgh that Ketchel was hospitalized), Houck, and others that I dont see Ketchel having the same success as he had two years earlier. Give the guy credit for unifying the division and cleaning it up but the only other guy around that had any real ability was Papke and Ketchel basically fought on even terms with him. I dont think Papke compares to the talent that was beginning to emerge at the time of Ketchels death and given Ketchels deterioration and the greater competition I see him fading off into the sunset if he doesn't get murdered.