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Is there any footage of him?

If you mean Jersey Joe, the heavyweight, there's about a dozen of his fights on films. If you mean Barbados Joe, the welterweight, I don't think so.

sharkeysboy wrote:If you mean Jersey Joe, the heavyweight, there's about a dozen of his fights on films. If you mean Barbados Joe, the welterweight, I don't think so.

Barbados of course.

I'd say that there probably is a fight, or two for Walcott. His 1904 bout with Joe Gans in San Francisco was a prime candidate to film at the time, but I am guessing.

yeah i have his 2 fights vs marciano and 4 fights vs ezzard charles.

i also have highlights of his 2 bouts with joe louis.

BB--He's talking about The Original Joe Walcott. Jersey Joe has several.

i know i was makin a jk



is his fight with battling nelson on film??

The only footage of Joe Wolcatt is of him being interviewed when he was an old man working as an usher. He discusses his fight with Joe Choynski and a couple of other things. Its pretty sad.

I was hoping that something exsisted and was actually pretty optimistic that one, or two fights were filmed...he was truly one of the tragic figures that boxing has been so numerous in producing. I guess it's the rags to riches back to rags that make most feel sympathy, although it's hard for me to feel bad for a fighter like Tyson who has went through 300+ million, however the early fighters, many did not make anything to start with, but Walcott had a very successful career. Like so many other early boxers, Walcott lead a very interesting life!

If I recall correctly one of his fights was filmed but it hasnt survived that anyone knows of.