Jake Kilrain, unlike most older fighters, appreciated the boxers of the 1930s. He felt that their attention to defense and technique was a worthy change from his own days of slugging it out in the late 1880s. He too, however, felt that fighters like Charlie Mitchell, from his own time, would have fit in nicely. It is overstated that ALL fighters in the bareknuckle days just stood there and took turns slugging it out. Charlie Mitchell, Joe Choynski, Peter Jackson, and Corbett are just a few of those notable examples.
Mitchell and Corbett frustrated John L. Sullivan with their hit and move style. Why could they not frustrate a slugger today? Also, a big slugger like Sullivan still has a puncher's chance, I don't care how lousy he boxes, against a sound boxer today.
I do totally agree that you CANT compare bareknuckle fighters to modern fighters in the way that Title Fight does. But I am not going to go as far as say that all bareknuckle fighters would do lousy against fighters of today.
My .02
