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So I was reading a good article in the January 1952 Ring on Joe Louis’ last fight against Rocky Marciano. Nat Fleischer who wrote the article made some comment to the affect of maybe this being the dawn of some fresh young talent to imerge onto the boxing scene. As specifically I’m sure he was thinking of who might come up to over take the old timers like Charles and Walcott amongst other heavyweights. Got me interested to look at who was there at that time in the late 40s to early 50s dominant amongst the heavyweights between Louis’ first retirement and the Marciano/Louis fight.
I’ve started looking at some of those fighters. One thing that seems to stand out is there not being any real dominant true heavyweights. A number of onetime or current light heavy fighters aspiring to move up and take advantage of Louis’ growing age in the late 40s? Started doing some updating of the fighters files that I have, most of which from the official database. Maybe start posting something’s in the near future on this. This has gotten my interest up more on this era of boxing than I have ever had.
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