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Mendoza
10-07-2007, 07:11 AM
Anyone care to list some? Here's Jeffries.

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dmt
10-07-2007, 07:44 AM
are we talking about the physical measurements of heavyweights?
Mendoza
10-07-2007, 08:41 AM
are we talking about the physical measurements of heavyweights?

Any fighter. Could be the old Joe Walcott.
ChrisPontius
10-07-2007, 10:23 AM
Anyone care to list some? Here's Jeffries.

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Side question, when was this picture taken?
janitor
10-07-2007, 11:17 AM
Any fighter. Could be the old Joe Walcott.

Barbados Joe was 5' 1'' yet he had a 17'' neck and 42'' chest.

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Pete47
10-07-2007, 11:56 AM
Do any films of the fights of Barbados Joe Walcott exist? He was rather short, but strong and had a remarkable record. It would be interesting to watch him in action.
janitor
10-07-2007, 12:14 PM
Do any films of the fights of Barbados Joe Walcott exist? He was rather short, but strong and had a remarkable record. It would be interesting to watch him in action.

Sadly there is no film of this little maestro. We have to reconstruct his style from newspaper acounts.
Mendoza
10-07-2007, 12:15 PM
Do any films of the fights of Barbados Joe Walcott exist? He was rather short, but strong and had a remarkable record. It would be interesting to watch him in action.

Yes. Walcott can be seen as an old man hitting heavy bag, or in interview when he was a janitor in Madison Square Garden.
PowerPuncher
10-07-2007, 12:21 PM
Barbados Joe was 5' 1'' yet he had a 17'' neck and 42'' chest.

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If hes 5'1 theres no way thats a 17 inch neck and 42inch chest. The neck and chest would be far more apparent on his dimensions
janitor
10-07-2007, 12:27 PM
If hes 5'1 theres no way thats a 17 inch neck and 42inch chest. The neck and chest would be far more apparent on his dimensions

I can produce contemporary sources quoting those dimensions. The National Police Gazette and the Brooklyn Eagle both list those figures.
Mendoza
10-07-2007, 12:28 PM
If hes 5'1 theres no way thats a 17 inch neck and 42inch chest. The neck and chest would be far more apparent on his dimensions

These are Walcott's measurements. He was a pit bull of a man.

Jeffries had a 50 inch expanded chest.
Minotauro
10-07-2007, 01:04 PM
Here's a pic of Walcott when he was a janitor.
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rydersonthestorm
10-07-2007, 01:08 PM
They might well have had those measurements but they don't look like it,
littleguy
10-07-2007, 02:29 PM
Here are some more measurements..

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Dempsey1238
10-07-2007, 03:23 PM
Sadly there is no film of this little maestro. We have to reconstruct his style from newspaper acounts.

WRONG, I have film of him talking as a old man, talking about his run as a fighter. Take that.
Vantage_West
10-07-2007, 03:25 PM
WRONG, I have film of him talking as a old man, talking about his run as a fighter. Take that.:D you know what he's talking about man real fighting...i think your being a bit cheeky:blurp
Dempsey1238
10-07-2007, 03:27 PM
:D you know what he's talking about man real fighting...i think your being a bit cheeky:blurp

Yeah he was yelling fighting words. lol.
Langford
10-07-2007, 04:15 PM
Here are some more measurements..

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It would take a helluva man to last more than one round (three minutes) with her. :hey
janitor
10-07-2007, 04:19 PM
Here's a pic of Walcott when he was a janitor.
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Why do you think I am called janitor?

There are at least two pound for pound greats who held that ocupation.
Bill1234
10-07-2007, 05:19 PM
Why do you think I am called janitor?

Because you are one?:huh
Mendoza
10-07-2007, 08:03 PM
They might well have had those measurements but they don't look like it,


It's ture. Jeffries had a 50" expanded chest.

Jeffries tale of the tape form a news paper in 1910:

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Height 6'1 1/2"
Weight 228
Neck 18"
Chest normal 45"
Chest expanded 50"
Waist 36"
Thigh 26"
Calf 17"
Ankle 10"
Bicep 16"
Forearm 16"
Wrist 8 1/4"
rydersonthestorm
10-07-2007, 08:06 PM
I aint doubting you, i just said he didn't look like it from the pics, pictures can be deceiving.