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Can you identify these boxers from the past?
Posted: 09 Feb 2009, 18:50
by slapbangwhallop
Can you identify these boxers from the past?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26642042@N08/
Re: Can you identify these boxers from the past?
Posted: 09 Feb 2009, 19:01
by metropol
Not very good at this sort of thing but im sure the black man in 008 is joe louis. Is the one in 0012 benny leonard
Re: Can you identify these boxers from the past?
Posted: 09 Feb 2009, 19:02
by REAL_DEAL
024 roger federer
Re: Can you identify these boxers from the past?
Posted: 09 Feb 2009, 19:04
by matko
018 is tony two ton galento dropping joe louis i think and 1 of last pics thinks has sugar ray robinson
Re: Can you identify these boxers from the past?
Posted: 09 Feb 2009, 19:07
by slapbangwhallop
metropol wrote:Not very good at this sort of thing but im sure the black man in 008 is joe louis. Is the one in 0012 benny leonard
zero points for Joe Louis - points only on offer for the guy that is with him
Re: Can you identify these boxers from the past?
Posted: 09 Feb 2009, 19:12
by metropol
sligobhoy67 wrote:metropol wrote:Not very good at this sort of thing but im sure the black man in 008 is joe louis. Is the one in 0012 benny leonard
zero points for Joe Louis - points only on offer for the guy that is with him
Was half thinking that seemed a bit too easy.
Re: Can you identify these boxers from the past?
Posted: 09 Feb 2009, 19:18
by gobbles
024 looks a bit like Marcel Cerdan
Re: Can you identify these boxers from the past?
Posted: 09 Feb 2009, 19:57
by slapbangwhallop
gobbles wrote:024 looks a bit like Marcel Cerdan
I was thinkin that mate but never seem Cerdan with a shaven chest and that threw my.
Re: Can you identify these boxers from the past?
Posted: 09 Feb 2009, 23:23
by gobbles
014 looks very like Jose Torres
021 looks like Peter Waterman
026 looks like Tony Zale, but the pic looks too old (looks like a boxer in the 20s)
012 definitely not Benny Leonard. I would guess that photo is taken in 30s or 40s. Looks nothing like Leonard and boxers in those days used to weigh in fully dressed. The boxers are flys or bantams.
010 a total guess, but I would say Chisanda Mutti and Lotte Mwale (no idea guy on right).
024 you are right about the hairy chest for Cerdan, looks like a boxer from the 30s-40s though
The guy half out of shot in 08 is Joe Louis
Re: Can you identify these boxers from the past?
Posted: 10 Feb 2009, 00:48
by Graham Houston
Galento dropping Louis is the easy one here.
024 is Tami Mauriello.
In 008, the boxer with the half-obscured Joe Louis looks a lot like Mike Quarry.
Re: Can you identify these boxers from the past?
Posted: 10 Feb 2009, 15:34
by metropol
Damn all you guys seem to have so much knowledge of boxers from the 1st half of the last century . I thought i knew a bit.
Re: Can you identify these boxers from the past?
Posted: 10 Feb 2009, 16:48
by slapbangwhallop
Here is where we are so far guys.
021 Peter Waterman or Battling Battalino - I reckon its Waterman!
0012 We had Benny Leonard and Mario D'Agata but its probably Marcel Thil and Fred Apostoli
008 Obviously its Joe Louis on the left. A lot of people thought it was Jerry Quarry but we have had a suggestion of Mike Quarry - which seems a good shout.
026 Tony Zale or Jess Willard - I still am not sure
024 We've had a few suggestions including Tami Mauriello, Marcel Cerdan, Barney Ross and Abe Simon - Tami is looking a good bet.
018 The one and only "Two Ton" Tony Galento, with poor old Joe on the deck.
014 Jose Torres is still the only suggestion.010 We've had Chisanda Mutti and Lotte Mwale with an unknown on the right - another suggested an ageing Sugar Ray Robinson on the left!
Re: Can you identify these boxers from the past?
Posted: 10 Feb 2009, 18:43
by youngrell
Re: Can you identify these boxers from the past?
Posted: 10 Feb 2009, 18:46
by slapbangwhallop
Re: Can you identify these boxers from the past?
Posted: 10 Feb 2009, 19:27
by metropol
sligobhoy67 wrote:
it wasnt
that funny!
Especially not 4 smiley faces funny
Re: Can you identify these boxers from the past?
Posted: 10 Feb 2009, 20:19
by gobbles
sligobhoy67 wrote:Here is where we are so far guys.
021 Peter Waterman or Battling Battalino - I reckon its Waterman!
0012 We had Benny Leonard and Mario D'Agata but its probably Marcel Thil and Fred Apostoli
008 Obviously its Joe Louis on the left. A lot of people thought it was Jerry Quarry but we have had a suggestion of Mike Quarry - which seems a good shout.
026 Tony Zale or Jess Willard - I still am not sure
024 We've had a few suggestions including Tami Mauriello, Marcel Cerdan, Barney Ross and Abe Simon - Tami is looking a good bet.
018 The one and only "Two Ton" Tony Galento, with poor old Joe on the deck.
014 Jose Torres is still the only suggestion.010 We've had Chisanda Mutti and Lotte Mwale with an unknown on the right - another suggested an ageing Sugar Ray Robinson on the left!
No way is 026 Willard, looks nothing like him and too small.
Mike Quarry a good shout
Thill we seem to have the chest hair problem again
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... s%26sa%3DN
Re: Can you identify these boxers from the past?
Posted: 10 Feb 2009, 20:26
by gobbles
This is Apostoli and Thil. The guys in the pic are too small and it looks older
http://pro.corbis.com/search/Enlargemen ... 3FBE64D%7D
Re: Can you identify these boxers from the past?
Posted: 10 Feb 2009, 20:51
by Grilling Machine
026 is actually William Shatner.
Re: Can you identify these boxers from the past?
Posted: 10 Feb 2009, 22:01
by el_grande_mauro_mina
No24 is definetley Tami Mauriello.
Re: Can you identify these boxers from the past?
Posted: 11 Feb 2009, 05:16
by slapbangwhallop
I dont know - I still think its Thil.
You are right - I dont think 26 is Willard.
# 010 seems to be the biggest mystery, like I said I have had the suggestion of Chisanda Mutti and Lotte Mwale but the photo is waaaay older than that
Re: Can you identify these boxers from the past?
Posted: 11 Feb 2009, 07:44
by el_grande_mauro_mina
sligobhoy67 wrote:gobbles wrote:# 010 seems to be the biggest mystery, like I said I have had the suggestion of Chisanda Mutti and Lotte Mwale but the photo is waaaay older than that
The fellow on our right is Hogan 'Kid' Bassey. I am guessing the guy on our left is Kid Galivan