Any footage of Maxie Rosenbloom fights?

[TheBradyHawkes]

Anyone ever seen any, or perhaps know where I can find some?

[Longhhorn71]

Anyone ever seen any, or perhaps know where I can find some?


I saw some footage once....he looked like Bob "Packie" Hope.

[TheBradyHawkes]

Damn, I guess that's a no then.

[Longhhorn71]

Damn, I guess that's a no then.

MAXIE "SLAPSIE MAXIE" ROSENBLOOM
Sport: Boxing
Inducted: 1984
Country: United States
Born: September 6, 1904 in Leonard’s Bridge, CT
Died: March 6, 1976

[Only registered and activated users can see links] Maxie Rosenbloom was World Light-Heavyweight Boxing Champion from 1930 to 1934. He was the busiest title holder in ring history, fighting 106 times during his four-and-a-half-year reign—the equivalent of fighting one bout every 15 days!

Rosenbloom decisioned World Champion Jimmy Slattery to win the Light-Heavyweight title on June 25, 1930. He lost the crown to Bob Olin by decision on November 16, 1934.

Journalist Damon Runyon, writing about Rosenbloom’s colorful persona and unique open glove style of boxing, dubbed him Slapsie Maxie, a nickname that followed him throughout his boxing career. Upon retirement from the ring, Rosenbloom’s sharp wit and broken syntax brought him new success in motion pictures. He appeared in nearly 100 films during his post-boxing career.

His professional boxing record, which began in 1923 and closed in 1939: 299 bouts—won 223 (19 KOs), lost 42, drew 32, 2 no-contests.

Rosenbloom was elected to the Boxing Hall of Fame in 1972 and to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1993.

[TheBradyHawkes]

I'm looking for actual fight footage mate.

[Unforgiven]

Good question.
I'm looking for footage of slapsie Maxie too.

[Briscoe]

Why isn't there any proper footage of this guy?

[SLAKKA]

Why isn't there any proper footage of this guy?

Heres why.


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Anthony Slide writes a fascinating history of the film preservation movement in the United States. After covering the dangers of nitrate film and the wholesale junking of film prints during the silent era, he documents the beginning of the archive movement in the 1930s and 1940s. You would think that the book would be filled with stories of heroic efforts to save films, but there are just as many stories of incompetent and egotistical administrators who did more damage than good. The American Film Institute did a good job for a few years helping archives to preserve and restore films, but it quickly became a political organization and mostly claimed credit for projects that it had nothing to do with. The book goes into detail into the "colorization" controversy, a process which thankfully has pretty much disappeared since this book was published in 1992. There is also a section on how Scandinavian archives have done a much better job of preserving their countries' film heritage. If you are a serious lover of silent films or the golden age of sound films, you will definitely want to read this book!

[red cobra]

Rather weird, when you think of it that there's NO footage of Harry Greb or Maxie Rosenbloom..what the hell were the film people thinking about back then?

[Briscoe]

Rather weird, when you think of it that there's NO footage of Harry Greb or Maxie Rosenbloom..what the hell were the film people thinking about back then?

Sometimes when I can't find footage of a particular fight or fighter I think that there's some person out there unknowingly in possesion of Greb, Rosenbloom, Tyson vs Sims, etc, etc. When I find that person...

[Flea Man]

No footage of Holman Williams or Eddie Booker either.

Painful.

[klompton]

Theres footage of Holman Williams...

[McGrain]

What footage, and have you seen it?

[Flea Man]

Theres footage of Holman Williams...

:yikes i ASSUMED cERDAN (oops caps) might be out there.....but no ones ever seen it.

[klompton]

Its not cerdan. its one of his lesser fights at the end of his career. cant remember the guys name. its a short clip.

[Flea Man]

Do you mind if I ask how you came about it? And whether you'd know where to find it?

[luke]

Do you mind if I ask how you came about it? And whether you'd know where to find it?



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[Flea Man]

Yeah, thanks anyway but there was a thread when it showed up.

[chatty]

Theres loads of guys without footage, I think theres only two small clips of Bivins on Youtube. I'm guessing the footage of these guys got destroyed somehow or someone is sitting on it. i refuse to believe that there is no footage of some of the best boxers at that time yet they would go out and record lesser fights.

[Young Terror]

Just watch Calzaghe.

Same shit.

[burt bienstock]

Shoulda, woulda, coulda, etc. The fact remains there are no known existing fight films of
Harry Greb - 300
Jack Britton-344
Maxie Rosenbloom- 299 fights
TOTAL-943 recorded fights, and NO FILM of their 943 fights exist today...
WHY ? Who knows, but it isvwhat it is...
P.S. I have my own boxing mystery that I never solved and never hope to...I accept it...

[Seamus]

Just watch Calzaghe.

Same shit.

I actually tend to think that Greb looked a lot like Calzaghe at his best, busy swarming punches that, while not jawbreakers, disrupted and accumulated and thoroughly frustrated an opponent. It's a rare capacity of reflexes and speed to pull off that style.

[lufcrazy]

Greb seems to have been one elusive with elite level foot movement and most writeups paint him as someone who could punch relentlessly whilst avoiding punches himself. Without footage though it's anyone's guess.

Rosenbloom seems to be similar in writeups to calzaghe.

I feel he's quite overrated though because of rose tinted glasses. I don't think i'd call him a great lhw anyways.

[burt bienstock]

Greb seems to have been one elusive with elite level foot movement and most writeups paint him as someone who could punch relentlessly whilst avoiding punches himself. Without footage though it's anyone's guess.

Rosenbloom seems to be similar in writeups to calzaghe.

I feel he's quite overrated though because of rose tinted glasses. I don't think i'd call him a great lhw anyways.
Luf, any fighter that could beat a PRIME John Henry Lewis three times, has to have been a damned good fighter, let alone fight the VERY best of the BEST in a 299 fight career, kod only once by a possible low blow by Britain's Tommy Milligan...Rosenbloom fought everyone of note, and ducked NO ONE....There is nothing "rose tinted" reading his boxing record...
A RUGGED, unorthodox cutey was Maxie Rosenbloom...Which LH in recent years could fight 299 bouts against the very best, and prosper ? Let us give credit to the hardy fighters of bygone as Rosenbloom, Greb, Walker, Len Harvey, Jock McAvoy, John Henry Lewis, etc..They were hard men in less pampered times, fighting OFTEN against the very best, not like a Floyd
Mayweather and others...My generation growing up and ther era before me
earned their reputation the right way, and not by rose tinted glasses...Cheers...

[luke]

Theres loads of guys without footage, I think theres only two small clips of Bivins on Youtube. I'm guessing the footage of these guys got destroyed somehow or someone is sitting on it. i refuse to believe that there is no footage of some of the best boxers at that time yet they would go out and record lesser fights.



archie moore vs bivins V is on youtube