Bob Fitzsimmons-The Best Ive Seen ( 1916)

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In September.16. 1916 the British Newspaper THE MIRROR OF LIFE had asked
Bob Fitzsimmons who were the best fighters that he had ever seen.
his answers were the following.

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' "Jim Jeffries was the greatest fighter that ever lived".

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"Mysterious Billy Smith was the best of the welterweights if watched and trained right.
he seemed immune from punishment".

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"Joe Gans was the best lightweight,
and so much greater then the rest of the field that only one compares with him-Kid Lavigne.
A fight between them would have been a great battle."

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"the best bantam and featherweight, to my mind, was little Dixon.
he was a fighter, he was a boxer."

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"Pardon me, but I think old Fritz was a good heavyweight.
Fair kind of chap.
Never wasted any time peeping into the looking glass,
nevertheless, he was a fair sort of fighter at 158 lbs."