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I was watching the film THE BIG SLEEP starring Humphrey Bogart as Private Eye Philip Marlowe
( filmed late 1944) and in Marlowe's office I noticed some pictures hanging on his wall in his office.
One was a portrait from the 1930's of Jim J.Jeffries in a white dinner jacket
and the photo in a frame next to it was Jack Sharkey (World HW Champion 1931-32) in a fighting pose,
so that inspired this thread.

32nd fight-March 1927

33rd fight-May 1927

34th professional fight-July 1927

I wish there was a film of Jack Sharkey's fights against George Godfrey and Harry Wills exist. However, there was a picture of Sharkey's fight with Harry Wills, who held up his hands before being disqualified for holding Sharkey a lot.

Sharkey-Maloney 2
Wills
McTigue
Maloney 4
Dempsey
Heeney
Stribling
Loughran
Scott
Schmeling 1
Walker
Carnera 1
Schmeling 2
Carnera 2
Joe Louis

All filmed. Probably more.

Great films, thanks for making these available for us to view.

dang dude, do you think you could edit those youtube video's into chronicallogical order like was done with the first three fights of his posted here ?
( for example) Jack Sharkey did not have a fight in 1934.)
That was the plan when I started this thread,to view Jack Sharkey's boxing career as it developed and to study it for future referance.
BTW
here is the live CBS radio broadcast of the Louis vrs Sharkey fight (someone must have recorded it on a wax cylinder).
Re-Live the Excitement !

Caractacus wrote: ↑16 Feb 2019, 14:47 dang dude, do you think you could edit those youtube video's into chronicallogical order like was done with the first three fights of his posted here ?
( for example) Jack Sharkey did not have a fight in 1934.)
That was the plan when I started this thread,to view Jack Sharkey's boxing career as it developed and to study it for future referance.
BTW
here is the live CBS radio broadcast of the Louis vrs Sharkey fight (someone must have recorded it on a wax cylinder).
Re-Live the Excitement !

Ok. I'll do it later.

That should be it sorted now.

Here's a short clip in better quality of the McTigue fight.

I remember back in the day here,we sometimes did "in-depth" chronological threads on some fighters.
Not only filmed fights but by "fight by fight" i.e links to (free) archive newspaper accounts and interviews,
but I seem to remember we did at least two one on Joe Bugner's career and the other on Cleveland Williams,
but those threads included stuff by Il Dueche and they was vapourized and messed it all up,so really don't want to go to the trouble of doing something like that just to have it vanish over-night..

I thought I would include some interesting quotes and trivia about Jack Sharkey however.
such as ,did you know that Jack Sharkey said that he could never sleep on the Eve of a fight ?
( so he must have been already really tired climbing into the ring the next evening )
and here is what Jack Dempsey said about him after their fight in 1927.
"Sharkey gave me living hell for the first five rounds and was as good a fighter as I have ever seen".

here is some Bonus footage-Jack Sharkey -playing the saxaphone and Ukalee in 1932


and here he is 26 years later (at age 56 yrs)as referee !

Jack Sharkey also refereed the rematch nine months later in August 1959.


P.S some Super-Secret Bonus footage !
Jack Dempsey and Jack Sharkey in the ring together once more (April 1947)
check out this link.

https://www.efootage.com/stock-footage/ ... ing_Match/


also check out this filmed interview with Jack Sharkey from 1966 !

https://www.efootage.com/stock-footage/ ... Fight_-HD/

Murray Woroner Radio Fantasy Fight from 1967.
It interviews Max Schmeling,James J. Braddock,Joe Louis,Jersey Joe Walcott,Rocky Marciano,
Nat Fleisher,Angelo Dundee,Chris Dundee and even the "Garrulous Gob" himself.