Amazing. Love the hat flying into the ring at the end too.
@dangosypethau25 күн бұрын
Haha! 😂
@Lickerboxing25 күн бұрын
Also the unfurling of the American flag! It was July 4, after all. And Tommy Burns was………Canadian!! I guess he took American citizenship?
@carspiv21 күн бұрын
The Referee is Jim Jeffries!
@FighterGlory29 күн бұрын
The legend!
@Lickerboxing28 күн бұрын
@@Lickerboxing Looks like a 300 lb Jeffries although he did ref a lot of Burns fights.
@anthonyryan512228 күн бұрын
The referee is John L Sullivan, Jim Jeffries came out of retirement to challenge the man that beat Tommy Burns - Jack Johnson.
@frankierandle877926 күн бұрын
That looks nothing like John L Sullivan The referee is an overweight Jim Jeffries
@petertodorov179226 күн бұрын
@@petertodorov1792 what, the same Jeffries that challenged Johnson 3 years after this fight? You think so? Ok, anything you say kiddo.
@frankierandle877926 күн бұрын
My dumbass turning up the volume at the beginning
@patricksweet410420 күн бұрын
Mine too
@raymondcapusan418319 күн бұрын
Thanks for this great footage! Burns had great foot work and a sneaky right hand to make up for his shorter size. In the old days of boxing, I consider being counted out early as getting off easy. When your opponent was allowed to stand over you waiting after a knockdown, with no time to recover was brutal! Jess Willard took a horrible beating from Dempsey in this manner.
@DanSan1121 күн бұрын
That guy was tough as nails. Dropped 3x and STILL tried to get back up.
@gregorybush322426 күн бұрын
his real name was Noah Brusso, an Italian Canadian. he was the shortest HV champ in history. with one of the longest reach (for his height, 5/7)
@archiethebold200021 күн бұрын
I think Sam Langford, a Black fighter who was also that height, would have taken him easily. Langford was sort of a freak, his arms were very long, and very muscular. Even Jack Johnson was afraid of him!
@curbozerboomer177320 күн бұрын
the announcer at the beginning was billy jordan, the michael buffer of his time. his famous catch phrase of the day was "Let 'er go!"
@grawakendream898027 күн бұрын
Appreciate the info! Thank you.
@Lickerboxing26 күн бұрын
😂😂
@theswampfox958426 күн бұрын
I love these old fight films. Fighters were tough in those days but with few actual boxing skills.
@snivelinj761226 күн бұрын
Not so, just much more clinching. It wasn't any less skillful.
@hadronoftheseus882924 күн бұрын
@@hadronoftheseus8829 Maybe some less, but the best fighters have always been very skilled.
@CC-xu2yz22 күн бұрын
The difference in style is the fact there was allmost no padding in the glows
@andrejensen783721 күн бұрын
You are exactly right, don't listen to any of the numbskulls below. They wouldn't have known a jab if it was presented to them by Santa at Christmas. They didn't throw any combos, just the same stuff over and over and only one at a time. They had little defense outside of Jack Johnson and few boxing skills whatsoever. They were tough, I will say that.
@user-bq9ii9vz8e20 күн бұрын
@@user-bq9ii9vz8e They _did_ throw combos, they just didn't throw them as often because the much more frequent clinching and extended infighting left them fewer opportunities to. Why is this so difficult for some people to understand?
@hadronoftheseus882920 күн бұрын
Burns was Canadian born in the same town as I was, Hanover Ontario.
@jamesmiller6637Ай бұрын
Those Grey County boys, eh?
@Alex_Mitchell24 күн бұрын
Great flashback. Tku for post.
@user-dh5cv6go1v22 күн бұрын
Great upload thank you so much
@billthestinkerАй бұрын
No problem!
@Lickerboxing28 күн бұрын
Burns was obviously a class above and it was really all over after that first right hand dropped Mr Sqires.
@CaskchapАй бұрын
The fight was scheduled for 45 rounds too 😅
@LickerboxingАй бұрын
Squires was a persistent fellow, though. He challenged Burns twice more over the next year and managed to last 8 and then 13 rounds before he got the message.
@carspivАй бұрын
Notice how the ref stood out of the way.
@joemonteleonezollo496724 күн бұрын
They fought 3 times Burns by KO every time.
@bootsminor436424 күн бұрын
Burns was a criminally underrated fighter - he was rugged enough to handle much larger fighters on the inside, & had a great sneak right hand. For at least a century (and maybe still?), he held the record for most consecutive KOs in HW title defenses (8), tied only by Holmes. It's a shame that he's largely been "lost" to history simply because he lost to a legend in Jack Johnson.
@CraftySouthpaw23 күн бұрын
He looked so silly against Jack Johnson nobody should really take him seriously as a heavyweight. I was embarrassed years ago when I saw him fight
@user-bq9ii9vz8e20 күн бұрын
@@user-bq9ii9vz8ehe was only 5 ft 7
@Hadrada.19 күн бұрын
@@Hadrada. Right, so he wasn't even a heavyweight fighter and he shouldn't have been champion and wasn't when he fought a real fighter like Jack Johnson.
@user-bq9ii9vz8e14 күн бұрын
But he was the heavyweight champion And he held the title when he was beat by Johnson
@Hadrada.14 күн бұрын
But he was the heavyweight champion And he held the title when he was beat by Johnson
@Hadrada.14 күн бұрын
Beautiful HD scan, Licker. Glad to know this quality footage still exists.
@carlweingartenmultiphasere964818 күн бұрын
Found it on an online archive page. It was of great quality and thought it deserved sharing.
@Lickerboxing17 күн бұрын
Absolutely, thank you for doing that. May I ask what archive?
@carlweingartenmultiphasere964817 күн бұрын
@@carlweingartenmultiphasere9648 Of course! www.loc.gov/
@Lickerboxing17 күн бұрын
Ref is Jim Jeffries who came out of retirement to fight Johnson in 1910.
@user-it1ig8fn1r22 күн бұрын
Ref makes them both look like welter weights.
@JoshSmith222Ай бұрын
Yeah, I looked at that ref and I thought, these are heavyweights?
@jeffhale2982Ай бұрын
The referee was former champion James J. Jeffries, probably blown up to over 250 lbs. Burns and Squires weighed in at about the same weight: 184.
@carspivАй бұрын
@@carspiv Thanks for the information about Jeffries. He was a great champion. I’d forgotten that was back in the day when many former fighters became referees.
@jeffhale2982Ай бұрын
@@jeffhale2982 YW. Also, remember that Burns was the SHORTEST heavyweight champ (5’7”). Jeffries was about 6’1” and was considered a GIANT at the time. Also I think the idea of a retired former champ refereeing a title fight was a kind of implicit “approval” of the legitimacy of the title claim of the winner since Jeffries hadn’t lost his championship in the ring but had instead retired.
@carspivАй бұрын
Ref looks like he'd a had them both
@nickpilgrim1966Ай бұрын
The ref is former HW Champ Jim Jeffries.
@butcherofntexas4966Ай бұрын
@@butcherofntexas4966 thats amazing
@nickpilgrim1966Ай бұрын
Think they fought 3 times, Squires from Australia
@AndrewWilliams-kw6bc28 күн бұрын
Vary skilled for that era
@FIGHTFAN777Ай бұрын
Absolutely! Booming right hands from Burns.
@LickerboxingАй бұрын
Never any shortage of skill in boxing.
@CC-xu2yz22 күн бұрын
I did not realize that this was Jim Jeffries as the referee, but one thing I can say this is really really good fight footage from so long ago. Back then you had to actually move the camera with your arm for the speed control. There wasn’t an actual speed control in the camera so this person who did the camera work was really good because this if it had sound would be perfect.
@markdowling28728 күн бұрын
Indubidubly 🙂
@Joeblow-ms3cv28 күн бұрын
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@davidhayes465019 күн бұрын
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@-Andre-Rodrigues21 күн бұрын
Buen combate del boxeo romántico boxeo clasico
@IsmaelGabarriJimenez-kw7er12 күн бұрын
Have you any footage of Burns v Jem Roche in Dublin? That was another quick knockout
@joekavanagh717120 күн бұрын
If there is footage of this bout then it is somewhere unaccessible. I can't find any record of it existing either.
@Lickerboxing20 күн бұрын
There was very few Tommy Burns fights filmed unfortunately.
@Lickerboxing20 күн бұрын
Recht gute Bildqualitaet, die Boxtechnik hat sich bis heute stark verbessert!
@petergoerres909517 күн бұрын
Straight up fighting.
@The-Contractor19 күн бұрын
Which version of fighting is this, ibf, ibo, iba, wba, wbc, wbf, abc, or xyz.
@tonysmith271516 күн бұрын
There was no governing bodies such as the WBC, WBA, WBO, IBF etc.. Only the Lineal Heavyweight title which Tommy Burns retained in this fight. Burns lost his title to Jack Johnson a year later.
@Lickerboxing16 күн бұрын
Burns wasn't sent to a neutral corner after the knock down, bizarre, he just stood over Squires watching him.
@Edward131227 күн бұрын
The neutral corner rule wasn’t enforced until the 2nd Dempsey-Tunney fight in 1927. Check out Dempsey’s fights with Willard and Firpo if you want to see REAL predatory hovering over a fallen opponent.
@carspiv27 күн бұрын
You could back then. The neutral corner rule wasn't even thought of in 1907.
@dlmullins905426 күн бұрын
Jack Dempsey was the reason for the neutral corner rule. After a knock down he would get behind the dazed opponent and absolutely destroy him when he tried to get up.
@uncleterry214825 күн бұрын
🥊🥊🥊🥊🥊
@manfredweber284120 күн бұрын
If this was at heavyweight just how big is that referee?
@danroper5121Ай бұрын
Well, we know Burns was 5'7" so that may be a contributing factor.
@LickerboxingАй бұрын
But you're right, he looks huge! 🤣
@LickerboxingАй бұрын
The referee was former champion James J. Jeffries. Jeffries had retired in 1905, having last defended his title a year before his retirement. If you want to know how big he got in retirement (his heaviest weight as champion was 220), rumor had him losing “100 pounds” in training for his comeback fight against Jack Johnson. Jeffries weighed in at 227 for that fight, so you can do the math. He was well on his way to 300 pounds by this point in his retirement.
@carspivАй бұрын
@@carspiv Wow! Thanks for the info!!
@LickerboxingАй бұрын
Maybe had Squires put his hands up he could have blocked some of those punches.
@FrankinDallas23 күн бұрын
That was many times longer than some heavyweight fights of modern times, so the lead in was incorrect. It was not the shortest and fiercest by any means. Tyson drubbed Spinks and Marvis Frazier in seconds. There's been a ton of others.
@user-bq9ii9vz8e20 күн бұрын
Besides the lines the quality is good
@DW-nb2zc20 күн бұрын
Considering the footage is 117 years old, it's pretty good. Lines were extremely common on films around this time due to how new they are.
@Lickerboxing20 күн бұрын
Australia Vs Canada. Why don't these fight's happen for the Commonwealth title anymore?
@michaelhiggs865716 күн бұрын
Boxing matches were as much wrestling matches as any actual boxing back in the old days. Much more like a street fight.
@cdcaleo16 күн бұрын
A pure slugging contest no jabs
@Drbob36918 күн бұрын
I've seen this three times. Ref only counts 8. I would understand if people got in the ring while Jeffries was still counting. It happened lots of times. But ref actually counted 8 and declared knockout BEFORE people got in the ring. Am I wrong?
@joseangelrodriguez619721 күн бұрын
I'm curious about that too. I'm presuming ten was the count in those days too, so did the referee count two (out loud without hand signal) in the time it took him to get round Burns and stand above Squires?
@postscript6716 күн бұрын
Where did the bout take place?
@davewilson311327 күн бұрын
Colma, California, USA.
@Lickerboxing27 күн бұрын
@@Lickerboxing You are a victim of “spell correct.” We all know you meant “Colma” California. “Coma” is what Squires almost ended up in.
@carspiv21 күн бұрын
@@carspiv I have failed you, Sir.
@Lickerboxing21 күн бұрын
@@Lickerboxing No, no…you were sabotaged by technology. ‘Twas technology that victimized you.
@carspiv21 күн бұрын
@@Lickerboxing Not at all…you, like so many others (myself included), are a victim of technology run amok.Spell correct should mind its own damned business.
@carspiv21 күн бұрын
Burns was 170 cm tall and had a reach of 185 cm.
@hb914520 күн бұрын
This was a fight not a boxing match
@kerrysupporter22 күн бұрын
Against Bill Squires, as Jeffries is the referee...
@henryrasmussendk18 күн бұрын
🔵THAT WASN'T BOXING. MORE LIKE WRESTLING.🔴
@auletjohnast0363826 күн бұрын
I've seen worse clinching recently. Burns could box.
@user-it1ig8fn1r22 күн бұрын
I noticed one thing about Tommy burns. Every time I watch is all white films. I noticed the Tommy has really good legs. Most boxers nowadays only concentrate on their upper body and people like Deontay Wilder have legs like a chicken with Tommy burns, had a very powerful leg because he was constantly moving around and constantly using his legs for power.
@markdowling28726 күн бұрын
Deontay Wilder was one of the hardest hitters so that pokes holes in your chicken legs theory.
@david-dj8or23 күн бұрын
Burns was sort of built like a not much larger, but very strongly built, Rocky Marciano.
@curbozerboomer177320 күн бұрын
Look at the size of the ref
@kelvingolden25226 күн бұрын
dude was ALL man 💪
@mda121821 күн бұрын
You can see sleeveless sunburn.
@Hrcak121 күн бұрын
100% male physiques 👊🏼
@mda121821 күн бұрын
Noah Brusso
@TheDharuma24 күн бұрын
Più che tirare pugni si danno delle spinte 😅
@andreaselleri40022 күн бұрын
Four ounce gloves ??? Tough dudes !!!
@archcunningham557923 күн бұрын
as ☠️ as bare knucks !
@mda121821 күн бұрын
Looks like Saturday night at about 1000 bars in the US. Most of these palookas back then were horrible, and these two certainly were
@northwestprof6015 күн бұрын
No they weren't. Tommy Burns was the Heavyweight Champion of the World. And cruised around the world taking on the more prominent Heavyweight Champions of those countries and beating them. Burns was really just a middle with the wingspan of a heavy. He had good power and speed. He has been made fun of by the ignorant for decades but was in fact a fine fighter.
@Durango_Kid14 күн бұрын
Handbags at medium range
@chipperjack891423 күн бұрын
😆
@Lickerboxing23 күн бұрын
To add insult he got k-ode? by a bloke in ridiculous boxing trunks
@markwillies766622 күн бұрын
better man 👊🏼 needed the added support 🍆
@mda121821 күн бұрын
You sound like Andy Capp,bloke.😂
@dan-vv8gs21 күн бұрын
It was not far from being a Speedo! His buns were kinda right there!
@curbozerboomer177320 күн бұрын
I couldn’t hear a thing.
@jameskinchen214823 күн бұрын
It's 1907... They didn't quite have the capability to record audio.
@Lickerboxing23 күн бұрын
Burns' opponent knew little about defense. There was a lot of holding in fights during this period of time.
@pukuluАй бұрын
There is a lot of holding nowadays too
@idx194128 күн бұрын
@@idx1941 Referees have cracked down on it in the last 30 years or so. Richard Steele never tolerated holding.
@pukulu27 күн бұрын
@@pukulu lol...there really is no crackdown. Fighters do a lot of holding and refs just break them. It's only a fighter who doesn't break that could face a foul. But that seldom happens. Ali held all the time! In the Burns fight the fighters broke when the ref commanded them, that's boxing. Just admit your comment was incorrect.
@idx194127 күн бұрын
Cetait boxeur la netaient pas humains tout simplement
@user-os5zu4ks6c23 күн бұрын
I assume the boxers were in a lot of cases just property of managers and told who to fight and not to fight. And higher up, I think that promoters and those who run boxing would have more say than managers. In Australia, we are told about Les Darcy. Darcy did not want to fight in the first world war so he went to America to fight. But those who control boxing said they would never let him get a fight after refusing to fight in the war.
@david-dj8or23 күн бұрын
WTF ...? Is this a faculty sparring match for Charity held during "spirit week"...? We can now see why Jack Johnson mopped the floor with Burns.....
@csnide670225 күн бұрын
Modern fighters would mop the floor with Johnson
@david-dj8or23 күн бұрын
@@david-dj8or quite possibly so .... but where does that land Burns....?
@csnide670221 күн бұрын
Hat salesman.🤣😅😂😭
@ianhope320320 күн бұрын
The little one was quite skilled, held their hands low, not a good thing
@andrewbradbury852726 күн бұрын
Burns was juicing.
@ptb200815 күн бұрын
Good grief! the form the technique was terrible!!
@chrisbera795222 күн бұрын
Who the hell is Jim Jeffries???
@DA-bp8lf20 күн бұрын
When boxing was more like brawling 🙃
@ChrisM-lb8xw19 күн бұрын
The intoxicants are Burns and Mickwire 🥃🥃🥃🍺🍻
@SeamusMcGillicuddy018 күн бұрын
Buy todays standards, they didn’t even know how to box.
@ralphmarshall100021 күн бұрын
For that time, they were the best of the best. Boxing has evolved over time. Gloved prize fighting was relatively new at this time.
@Lickerboxing21 күн бұрын
Burns was only 5'7", and fought at around 175lbs...He had a wicked right hand for sure!. But once he was in the ring with a skillful Jack Johnson, at 6'1" and 210lbs, he was way out of his league. Johnson carried this guy, eventually knocked him out. The cameras were shut off when Burns was being knocked out--they did not want to show the world that a Black boxer was getting it done!
@curbozerboomer177320 күн бұрын
this was the racist establishment's thumbing their nose at legitimate top black contenders, especially jack johnson. by matching a middling white heavyweight vs a non contender, for the title
@grawakendream898027 күн бұрын
😥
@worldobserver351526 күн бұрын
Burns fought Johnson for the title just one year later though.
@dieminervaeule26 күн бұрын
@@dieminervaeule he finally cornered him, after burns spammed title shots with weak challengers the whole time
@grawakendream898025 күн бұрын
Johnson was said to have dodged some legitimate top black contenders also. It's logical to want to get the best path to get money.
@david-dj8or23 күн бұрын
@@david-dj8or that's moral equivalence, friend. you can't really equate burns' and johnson's experience of society 1 to 1
@grawakendream898023 күн бұрын
Amazing how they don't keep their hands up to protect their faces.
Amazing. Love the hat flying into the ring at the end too.
Haha! 😂
Also the unfurling of the American flag! It was July 4, after all. And Tommy Burns was………Canadian!! I guess he took American citizenship?
The Referee is Jim Jeffries!
The legend!
@@Lickerboxing Looks like a 300 lb Jeffries although he did ref a lot of Burns fights.
The referee is John L Sullivan, Jim Jeffries came out of retirement to challenge the man that beat Tommy Burns - Jack Johnson.
That looks nothing like John L Sullivan The referee is an overweight Jim Jeffries
@@petertodorov1792 what, the same Jeffries that challenged Johnson 3 years after this fight? You think so? Ok, anything you say kiddo.
My dumbass turning up the volume at the beginning
Mine too
Thanks for this great footage! Burns had great foot work and a sneaky right hand to make up for his shorter size. In the old days of boxing, I consider being counted out early as getting off easy. When your opponent was allowed to stand over you waiting after a knockdown, with no time to recover was brutal! Jess Willard took a horrible beating from Dempsey in this manner.
That guy was tough as nails. Dropped 3x and STILL tried to get back up.
his real name was Noah Brusso, an Italian Canadian. he was the shortest HV champ in history. with one of the longest reach (for his height, 5/7)
I think Sam Langford, a Black fighter who was also that height, would have taken him easily. Langford was sort of a freak, his arms were very long, and very muscular. Even Jack Johnson was afraid of him!
the announcer at the beginning was billy jordan, the michael buffer of his time. his famous catch phrase of the day was "Let 'er go!"
Appreciate the info! Thank you.
😂😂
I love these old fight films. Fighters were tough in those days but with few actual boxing skills.
Not so, just much more clinching. It wasn't any less skillful.
@@hadronoftheseus8829 Maybe some less, but the best fighters have always been very skilled.
The difference in style is the fact there was allmost no padding in the glows
You are exactly right, don't listen to any of the numbskulls below. They wouldn't have known a jab if it was presented to them by Santa at Christmas. They didn't throw any combos, just the same stuff over and over and only one at a time. They had little defense outside of Jack Johnson and few boxing skills whatsoever. They were tough, I will say that.
@@user-bq9ii9vz8e They _did_ throw combos, they just didn't throw them as often because the much more frequent clinching and extended infighting left them fewer opportunities to. Why is this so difficult for some people to understand?
Burns was Canadian born in the same town as I was, Hanover Ontario.
Those Grey County boys, eh?
Great flashback. Tku for post.
Great upload thank you so much
No problem!
Burns was obviously a class above and it was really all over after that first right hand dropped Mr Sqires.
The fight was scheduled for 45 rounds too 😅
Squires was a persistent fellow, though. He challenged Burns twice more over the next year and managed to last 8 and then 13 rounds before he got the message.
Notice how the ref stood out of the way.
They fought 3 times Burns by KO every time.
Burns was a criminally underrated fighter - he was rugged enough to handle much larger fighters on the inside, & had a great sneak right hand. For at least a century (and maybe still?), he held the record for most consecutive KOs in HW title defenses (8), tied only by Holmes. It's a shame that he's largely been "lost" to history simply because he lost to a legend in Jack Johnson.
He looked so silly against Jack Johnson nobody should really take him seriously as a heavyweight. I was embarrassed years ago when I saw him fight
@@user-bq9ii9vz8ehe was only 5 ft 7
@@Hadrada. Right, so he wasn't even a heavyweight fighter and he shouldn't have been champion and wasn't when he fought a real fighter like Jack Johnson.
But he was the heavyweight champion And he held the title when he was beat by Johnson
But he was the heavyweight champion And he held the title when he was beat by Johnson
Beautiful HD scan, Licker. Glad to know this quality footage still exists.
Found it on an online archive page. It was of great quality and thought it deserved sharing.
Absolutely, thank you for doing that. May I ask what archive?
@@carlweingartenmultiphasere9648 Of course! www.loc.gov/
Ref is Jim Jeffries who came out of retirement to fight Johnson in 1910.
Ref makes them both look like welter weights.
Yeah, I looked at that ref and I thought, these are heavyweights?
The referee was former champion James J. Jeffries, probably blown up to over 250 lbs. Burns and Squires weighed in at about the same weight: 184.
@@carspiv Thanks for the information about Jeffries. He was a great champion. I’d forgotten that was back in the day when many former fighters became referees.
@@jeffhale2982 YW. Also, remember that Burns was the SHORTEST heavyweight champ (5’7”). Jeffries was about 6’1” and was considered a GIANT at the time. Also I think the idea of a retired former champ refereeing a title fight was a kind of implicit “approval” of the legitimacy of the title claim of the winner since Jeffries hadn’t lost his championship in the ring but had instead retired.
Ref looks like he'd a had them both
The ref is former HW Champ Jim Jeffries.
@@butcherofntexas4966 thats amazing
Think they fought 3 times, Squires from Australia
Vary skilled for that era
Absolutely! Booming right hands from Burns.
Never any shortage of skill in boxing.
I did not realize that this was Jim Jeffries as the referee, but one thing I can say this is really really good fight footage from so long ago. Back then you had to actually move the camera with your arm for the speed control. There wasn’t an actual speed control in the camera so this person who did the camera work was really good because this if it had sound would be perfect.
Indubidubly 🙂
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Buen combate del boxeo romántico boxeo clasico
Have you any footage of Burns v Jem Roche in Dublin? That was another quick knockout
If there is footage of this bout then it is somewhere unaccessible. I can't find any record of it existing either.
There was very few Tommy Burns fights filmed unfortunately.
Recht gute Bildqualitaet, die Boxtechnik hat sich bis heute stark verbessert!
Straight up fighting.
Which version of fighting is this, ibf, ibo, iba, wba, wbc, wbf, abc, or xyz.
There was no governing bodies such as the WBC, WBA, WBO, IBF etc.. Only the Lineal Heavyweight title which Tommy Burns retained in this fight. Burns lost his title to Jack Johnson a year later.
Burns wasn't sent to a neutral corner after the knock down, bizarre, he just stood over Squires watching him.
The neutral corner rule wasn’t enforced until the 2nd Dempsey-Tunney fight in 1927. Check out Dempsey’s fights with Willard and Firpo if you want to see REAL predatory hovering over a fallen opponent.
You could back then. The neutral corner rule wasn't even thought of in 1907.
Jack Dempsey was the reason for the neutral corner rule. After a knock down he would get behind the dazed opponent and absolutely destroy him when he tried to get up.
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If this was at heavyweight just how big is that referee?
Well, we know Burns was 5'7" so that may be a contributing factor.
But you're right, he looks huge! 🤣
The referee was former champion James J. Jeffries. Jeffries had retired in 1905, having last defended his title a year before his retirement. If you want to know how big he got in retirement (his heaviest weight as champion was 220), rumor had him losing “100 pounds” in training for his comeback fight against Jack Johnson. Jeffries weighed in at 227 for that fight, so you can do the math. He was well on his way to 300 pounds by this point in his retirement.
@@carspiv Wow! Thanks for the info!!
Maybe had Squires put his hands up he could have blocked some of those punches.
That was many times longer than some heavyweight fights of modern times, so the lead in was incorrect. It was not the shortest and fiercest by any means. Tyson drubbed Spinks and Marvis Frazier in seconds. There's been a ton of others.
Besides the lines the quality is good
Considering the footage is 117 years old, it's pretty good. Lines were extremely common on films around this time due to how new they are.
Australia Vs Canada. Why don't these fight's happen for the Commonwealth title anymore?
Boxing matches were as much wrestling matches as any actual boxing back in the old days. Much more like a street fight.
A pure slugging contest no jabs
I've seen this three times. Ref only counts 8. I would understand if people got in the ring while Jeffries was still counting. It happened lots of times. But ref actually counted 8 and declared knockout BEFORE people got in the ring. Am I wrong?
I'm curious about that too. I'm presuming ten was the count in those days too, so did the referee count two (out loud without hand signal) in the time it took him to get round Burns and stand above Squires?
Where did the bout take place?
Colma, California, USA.
@@Lickerboxing You are a victim of “spell correct.” We all know you meant “Colma” California. “Coma” is what Squires almost ended up in.
@@carspiv I have failed you, Sir.
@@Lickerboxing No, no…you were sabotaged by technology. ‘Twas technology that victimized you.
@@Lickerboxing Not at all…you, like so many others (myself included), are a victim of technology run amok.Spell correct should mind its own damned business.
Burns was 170 cm tall and had a reach of 185 cm.
This was a fight not a boxing match
Against Bill Squires, as Jeffries is the referee...
🔵THAT WASN'T BOXING. MORE LIKE WRESTLING.🔴
I've seen worse clinching recently. Burns could box.
I noticed one thing about Tommy burns. Every time I watch is all white films. I noticed the Tommy has really good legs. Most boxers nowadays only concentrate on their upper body and people like Deontay Wilder have legs like a chicken with Tommy burns, had a very powerful leg because he was constantly moving around and constantly using his legs for power.
Deontay Wilder was one of the hardest hitters so that pokes holes in your chicken legs theory.
Burns was sort of built like a not much larger, but very strongly built, Rocky Marciano.
Look at the size of the ref
dude was ALL man 💪
You can see sleeveless sunburn.
100% male physiques 👊🏼
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Più che tirare pugni si danno delle spinte 😅
Four ounce gloves ??? Tough dudes !!!
as ☠️ as bare knucks !
Looks like Saturday night at about 1000 bars in the US. Most of these palookas back then were horrible, and these two certainly were
No they weren't. Tommy Burns was the Heavyweight Champion of the World. And cruised around the world taking on the more prominent Heavyweight Champions of those countries and beating them. Burns was really just a middle with the wingspan of a heavy. He had good power and speed. He has been made fun of by the ignorant for decades but was in fact a fine fighter.
Handbags at medium range
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To add insult he got k-ode? by a bloke in ridiculous boxing trunks
better man 👊🏼 needed the added support 🍆
You sound like Andy Capp,bloke.😂
It was not far from being a Speedo! His buns were kinda right there!
I couldn’t hear a thing.
It's 1907... They didn't quite have the capability to record audio.
Burns' opponent knew little about defense. There was a lot of holding in fights during this period of time.
There is a lot of holding nowadays too
@@idx1941 Referees have cracked down on it in the last 30 years or so. Richard Steele never tolerated holding.
@@pukulu lol...there really is no crackdown. Fighters do a lot of holding and refs just break them. It's only a fighter who doesn't break that could face a foul. But that seldom happens. Ali held all the time! In the Burns fight the fighters broke when the ref commanded them, that's boxing. Just admit your comment was incorrect.
Cetait boxeur la netaient pas humains tout simplement
I assume the boxers were in a lot of cases just property of managers and told who to fight and not to fight. And higher up, I think that promoters and those who run boxing would have more say than managers. In Australia, we are told about Les Darcy. Darcy did not want to fight in the first world war so he went to America to fight. But those who control boxing said they would never let him get a fight after refusing to fight in the war.
WTF ...? Is this a faculty sparring match for Charity held during "spirit week"...? We can now see why Jack Johnson mopped the floor with Burns.....
Modern fighters would mop the floor with Johnson
@@david-dj8or quite possibly so .... but where does that land Burns....?
Hat salesman.🤣😅😂😭
The little one was quite skilled, held their hands low, not a good thing
Burns was juicing.
Good grief! the form the technique was terrible!!
Who the hell is Jim Jeffries???
When boxing was more like brawling 🙃
The intoxicants are Burns and Mickwire 🥃🥃🥃🍺🍻
Buy todays standards, they didn’t even know how to box.
For that time, they were the best of the best. Boxing has evolved over time. Gloved prize fighting was relatively new at this time.
Burns was only 5'7", and fought at around 175lbs...He had a wicked right hand for sure!. But once he was in the ring with a skillful Jack Johnson, at 6'1" and 210lbs, he was way out of his league. Johnson carried this guy, eventually knocked him out. The cameras were shut off when Burns was being knocked out--they did not want to show the world that a Black boxer was getting it done!
this was the racist establishment's thumbing their nose at legitimate top black contenders, especially jack johnson. by matching a middling white heavyweight vs a non contender, for the title
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Burns fought Johnson for the title just one year later though.
@@dieminervaeule he finally cornered him, after burns spammed title shots with weak challengers the whole time
Johnson was said to have dodged some legitimate top black contenders also. It's logical to want to get the best path to get money.
@@david-dj8or that's moral equivalence, friend. you can't really equate burns' and johnson's experience of society 1 to 1
Amazing how they don't keep their hands up to protect their faces.