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Professional boxing classics is a series of video’s of some of the greatest champions of the ring. You will find great fighting action from Rocky Marciano, Muhammad Ali, Sonny Liston, Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Gene Tunny and many others.

I would not consider most of the more recent heavy weight division champion to be worthy of such all time greats. So I have added several more recent champions from the Middle weight and Light Heavy weight divisions such as Sergei Kovalev, Andre Ward, and Gennady Golovkin.
Having been an somewhat of an amateur boxer myself, I was inspired at a young age by Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, and by the time I was 14, I became a fan of Muhammad Ali.
When he was given virtually no chance of beating the terrifying Sonny Liston.

My step grandfather George Timmerman had a gym back in those days. Where I l learned how to keep the speed bag going with my elbows. And sparred with my friends. While hanging out at George Timmerman’s gym I got into constant discussions over how would Ali have fared against Joe Louis when both were in their prime. And how could Tunny beat the ferocious Jack Dempsey?
Today there’s a lot of discussion on Quora Digest about how much smaller world champion boxers would do against the giants in the current heavyweight division.
The answer can be found here in Professional Boxing Classics in just a single fight between Jack Dempsey and Jess Willard. With Dempsey weighting just 188 pounds, and Willard at 245 pounds, Dempsey just took Willard apart.

Back in those days there were a lot more boxers training on a serious level than there are today. My grandpa Timmerman used to spare a few rounds with his pals and then they would job 18 miles and he was just an amateur.

Harry Greb, one of the greatest Middleweight champions of all time had 298 professional fights in 13 years for an average of 23 fights a year.
In Professional boxing classics you will learn about the real Max Baer.
I’m sure you have all seen the movie “Cinderella Man” staring Russel Crowe as James Braddock and Craig Bierko as Max Baer. Craig Bierko is both hilarious and terrifying. Cinderella Man’s Max Baer has killed two men in the ring and he’s proud of it. But the real Max Baer was nothing like Bierko’s Max Baer at all.

In Professional boxing classics you will see a lot of great fights during boxing’s golden years during the 1960s and 1970s. When some of the greatest champions of all time fought against each other. And when Muhamad Ali showed the world that he was the greatest of them all.

In the upcoming months I will be adding more fights to this list of all time classic professional boxing matches. So stay tuned to the Jack Corbett Video Channel.

The Andre Ward Sergei Kovalev fight was a draw, the way I see it. But after losing the decision by just 1 point, Kovalev, cried foul. “I’ll beat Ward’s ass in the rematch,” he vowed.

My Russian friends — On the beach only 150 meters from our condo with my girl friend and two Russian friends. Five Russian families own 5 out of the 62 condos here. 3 of the 5 are from Siberia. I really have to watch it here to stop the Russian friends from picking up my tab under my nose so that they can treat us to free food and drink. I used to view Russians as the bad guys inhabiting the evil empire (the Soviet Union). Well, believe me, my opinion on Russians has completely changed. If anything I would have preferred the Andre Ward Sergei Kovalev fight going to the Russian. But not by much.

After it was over, most commentators, felt that Kovalev had won, and since the fight had been held in Las Vegas, the judges were biased for their fellow American. I say forget the bias be it Russian bias for the Russian fighter had this fight been held in Russia or for the American. Make me the judge. I always thought that Ward would win, but sentimentally I favored the Russian.

So why would I root for Kovalev over Ward?

I like both men, and I really didn’t want either man to lose. I’m not anti black and I’m not anti Russian. I live here in Thailand in a 62 unit condo where I’m the chairmen over a 5 man committee that runs our building. 5 of them have Russian owners. About one month before the Andre Ward, Sergei Kovalev fight, while I was drinking at our favorite beach restaurant with several of my Russian friends, I asked the Russians which fighter they wanted to win.

Click here to watch Kovalev vs Ward the entire fight

After a few Guiness Stouts I told the Russians what my brain and my heart were telling me. “I like both men,” I told the Russians and I hate to see either one lose because both of them deserve to win. But I prefer Kovalev’s style. Andre Ward is boring by comparison. Kovalev comes right at his opponent. His record is 30-0-1 with 27 of his 30 wins by knockout. “But I believe Andre Ward will win and when he does, I will really be sad.”

After the Andre Ward Sergei Kovalev fight was over, I read that

Kovalev had finally proved that he was an excellent boxer.

But I knew that already after watching a number of Kovalev’s fights on you tube. I had also learned from watching his fights on you tube that Kovalev was very smart. I also enjoyed listening to Kovalev being interviewed on you tube finding him to be honest, to the point and very incisive. But as fast as he is, ring savvy, and his commanding power, I just didn’t think he would win against Ward, who I believed was slightly faster and nearly incapable of making mistakes.

I expected Ward to win by decision. And although Ward is not known for his knockout ability I would not have been surprised if Ward knocked Kovalev out. What I didn’t expect was for the Andre Ward Sergei Kovalev fight to be so close.

Living in Pattaya, Thailand, I couldn’t find a way to actually watch the fight on television.

I would gladly have paid the Sixty dollar pay per view that HBO was charging. But I was not a subscriber to HBO. I couldn’t find any bars advertising the fight. And I got the date wrong. Thinking that the fight was on November 27th, I’d purposely avoid news coverage of the fight until a couple days after the fight. That way I could view it on you tube without knowing the final outcome.

But suppose that Kovalev or Ward had injured himself in training and the fight had been postponed. I had to know. So I googled Andre Ward vs Sergei Kovalev. The first results I saw had Kovalev defeating Ward. Not by knockout but by decision. This I found to be odd because I even though I felt Kovalev was underrated as a boxer, I felt there was no way Kovalev could win a decision over Andre Ward who was an even better boxer.

I went directly to the fight on you tube.

When Kovalev floored Ward in the 2nd round I believed that there would be no way that Ward could survive past the 4th round. But he did, and the fight went to the 5th, then the 6th round. Then the 7th and the 8th. By this time I truly felt that Kovalev had established beyond any doubt that he was Andre Ward’s master. But Ward was hanging in there. For the first few rounds Kovalev dominated the fight. But by the time the fight had gone past the sixth round I could not see either fighter dominating the other.

It was proving to be a good fight after all. By the middle of the fight Kovalev was well ahead in points but I could also see that Ward was slowly closing the gap. In the closing rounds it also seemed to me that Kovalev was weakening whereas Ward was getting stronger and landing far more punches.

But remember. I already knew that Kovalev had won the fight. So I now imagined myself as the only judge. Okay, Kovalev is the champion while Ward’s the challenger. I had learned from my study of boxing that a challenger had to clearly take the title away from the champion before he could be crowned as the new champion. This meant by knockout, tko or by demonstrating convincingly that he had clearly dominated the fight.

Certainly Ward could not be awarded the decision by proving himself to be dominant.

But neither could Kovalev had Ward been the champion and Kovalev were the challenger. Based on this criteria neither man would have dethroned the champion. In the end the two men had proven to be an even match.

Then another idea crossed my mind. Back in the old days of boxing, in the bare knuckle days of John L. Sullivan, fights often went well past the 20th round. And it was the 26th round of a scheduled 45 round fight that Jack Johnson finally lost the heavyweight title to Jess Willard in the hot Cuban sun. Had the fight gone just 12 or 15 rounds, Johnson would have probably kept the championship belt by decision. But by the 20th round he was showing signs of past his prime tiring.

As Ward was steadily closing the point gap, there was little doubt that he’d win the decision if the Andre Ward Sergei Kovalev fight were to go a full 15 rounds instead of the scheduled 12 rounds. Kovalev could no longer match Ward’s speed. He was also losing the ability to connect with his punches. I had also noticed that Ward had snapped Kovalev’s head back several times in the latter rounds. If the fight were to go on long enough, Ward would clearly be the dominant fighter by a mile.

The way I see it,