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Jupiter1610
07-11-2007, 09:46 PM
What do you think about Maxie Rosenbloom? Does not seem to get mentioned here on this board, but many boxing historians thought very highly of him. How good was he? Where do you guys rank him? How does he match up head to head versus the other LHWs? Why did he not get a shot at Louis or Conn?
Titan1
07-11-2007, 09:48 PM
Why didn't he fight Tommy Loughran?
dmille
07-11-2007, 10:07 PM
Why didn't he fight Tommy Loughran?

Why did Tommy Loughran duck Maxie?
jonesjrp4p1
07-11-2007, 10:26 PM
Hardest hitting LHW ever.

haha:lol:
Jupiter1610
07-12-2007, 04:10 AM
Hardest hitting LHW ever.

Yikes, just looked at his record more carefully. Only 19 KOs in 298 fights, certainly not a slugger! But only knocked out twice in an active career spanning 16 years. That impressive!
brooklyn1550
07-12-2007, 04:12 AM
Top 10 at 175 in my opinion, one of the great defensive fighters in boxing history
brooklyn1550
07-12-2007, 04:45 AM
Defensive? are you on crack? the man was a total offensive juggernaut, armed to the teeth with offensive weaponry the likes of the light heavyweight division has never seen before or since.

What was I thinking?:D
Imira
07-18-2007, 12:59 PM
Yikes, just looked at his record more carefully. Only 19 KOs in 298 fights, certainly not a slugger! But only knocked out twice in an active career spanning 16 years. That impressive!

I read somewhere that his second KO at the hands of Jimmy Adamick was a "favor" to Adamick's manager to help build Adamick up as some kind of deadly slugger.
OLD FOGEY
07-19-2007, 12:23 AM
What do you think about Maxie Rosenbloom? Does not seem to get mentioned here on this board, but many boxing historians thought very highly of him. How good was he? Where do you guys rank him? How does he match up head to head versus the other LHWs? Why did he not get a shot at Louis or Conn?

Does anyone know the name of the technicolor movie in which Maxie had an extensive sparring session? I haven't been able to isolate the name on IMDB. Would appreciate it if anyone knows.
john garfield
07-19-2007, 12:37 AM
Does anyone know the name of the technicolor movie in which Maxie had an extensive sparring session? I haven't been able to isolate the name on IMDB. Would appreciate it if anyone knows.

I think it was "The Kid Comes Back" in about '38 or '39
OLD FOGEY
07-19-2007, 12:42 AM
I think it was "The Kid Comes Back" in about '38 or '39

Thank you, sir.
Titan1
07-24-2007, 07:15 PM
How would he have done against an Archie Moore, or a Philadelphia Jack O'Brien?