Off Topic And Now for Something Completely Different

I dont think Sherlock Holmes is required to crack this case.

 

Ha! If we do find out who it is, I'd prefer Larry Holmes to sort it, not Sherlock. I don't much like what I'm suspecting any more than you do.

 

Go on then

 

No it would be unfair, just on the of chance i am wrong (which i dont think i am).

A lot of clues are already within this thread.

 

No. Where have the days gone of slugging it out for all to see?

 

Agreed. Lots of clues.

 

Aye, them were the days. Get the sissy gloves off. Next up - John L. Sullivan v Jack Flood.

 

You joined here the same day as me, so have witnessed some of the epic arguments that have occured. Now folks are resorting to guerilla warfare. Sniping from the bushes or leaving dirty bombs.

Lets get back to trench warfare
Over the top we go lads.

 

Last bare knuckling fighters champion.

 

Been reading more than writing lately, but we all know the players well. Been different of late. Not in a good way. Feel bad for Marcus on this one. It will work itself out tho. Nothing ever stays the same.

 

Yep. Gloves were introduced halfway through John L.'s reign, so he was champ with gloves and without them.

 

Oh it will work out for sure. Marcus is the innocent party in this debacle.

 

I was just having a quick scan as i didnt have a clue who the **** you were on about. Interesting stuff.

Were you there?

 

Be nice to your elders

 

Tw*t - no, I wasn't bloody there. Sullivan always fought in knee-length tights, which is where we get the term 'long Johns'. He won the title in 1882 from Jack Flood, a New York gangster. The title wasn't universally recognised though till he beat the Irishman, Jake Kilrain in 1887. Sullivan kept the title till 1892, when he lost it to James J. Corbett.

 

It was the Kilrain fight i was reading about.

 

It gets real interesting when you get to Jack Johnson

 

Sorry couldnt resist. Relic gets me to do more work on this forun than anyone else. He keeps hoying these names up and gets me curious

Thank **** for Mr. Google or i'd be ****ed.

 

Doesn't it just! Upset white society so much that there wasn't another black champ till Joe Louis 21 years later. And even then the top contender was a white - Max Scmelling, who'd already knocked Louis out in 1935. But society would rather even give a title shot to another black man than give it to a German.

Off topic - There are three guys here having a pleasant chat. One in California, one in Thailand, and one in England. What an amazing world we live in!

 

This one has to pop into work now. Bo ho.

Take care you two.