55 year old James J. Jeffries trains and spars with his prodigy Al Morro, 1930

[@imperator3649]

Great find, never seen that before

[@henrywarner3686]

Wow this is some great footage!! Classic 😊

[@vinny6685]

Great footage !

[@PeterLyons-x4f]

Love old school boxing training.

[@philipbell9019]

Superb find I have not seen this before....he obviously kept in shape. His fight with Jack Johnson is worth seeking out.

[@davidmccann9811]

Great footage, never seen this one. Old Jeff getting in that big right hand. 😂

[@billthestinker]

High quality upload thank you

[@AngelaSpanger-mp9hk]

Jake Paul might watch this and think I can beat that old man...

[@andrewlally7828]

Jefferies would have opened him up

[@igorstein5616]

Jake the Fake

[@Dempsey1873]

​@@andrewlally7828James in his prime literature eat that boy

[@BillWhisenant]

haha 😂 true

[@paulyricca3881]

😆BWAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@mikevaldez7684]

Awesome 👍

[@joeblogs-vx4ep]

Old school boxers where some of the toughest guys on the planet 💪

[@johnnyzaldana4841]

Amazing !! He fought Bob Fitzsimmons!!

[@brianmorecombe2726]

Bob Fitzimmons was a world champion at three different weights including heavyweight.

[@larryro8872]

Jeffires mentions the Tom Sharkey fight, that one was brutal. To film it, lights that were hung low over the ring in the arena. It was the early days of film. They had the lights too low and too hot, th ref got sick from the heat, and both fighters were badly burned on the tops of their heads after the fight was over. I think they went 20 rounds.

[@historicalboxingsociety]

This is awesome. I would of bet massive money he would have said Corbett was one of his toughest fight's his last fight with him.

[@FightingIsLife]

Nice video, subbed!

[@joeblogs-vx4ep]

Awesome sounds like a workhorse 💪🥊🐎

[@davidharrison3399]

Great

[@larryro8872]

Does anyone know how Al Morro, who Jeffries is training in this video, did in his career? Jefrries was an all time great.

[@gopherstate777]

It speaks for itself. You never heard about him.

[@TorstenStett]

Al Morro went 10-7-1.

[@eduardopaz1]

Perdio por KO con Steve Hamas y le ganó al veterano Jack Roper. 10-7

[@davidabney7700]

Brand new, never seen this one before. Not familiar with the fighter Al Morro, if anyone else knows anything. Big Jeff looked like he could have climbed right back into the ring as he horsed around with his prodigy, showing him "when" to throw that right.

[@k_ir3868]

Well theres not much out there about him. Has a record of 10-7-1 according to boxrec and was only active from 1930-1934. He fought some decent guys. Probably one of those who had potential but decided for something else than boxing. I dont think it was easy to make a living with boxing in those days.

[@davidabney7700]

@@k_ir3868 In early 1930's America, the Great Depression was in full swing. Jobs were scared and fighters were plenty. You are so right about a fighter not making any money unless he was in the top 10. The story of Jimmy Braddock gives boxing students a peak at what living in the early 1930's America was like. Thanks much!

[@PaulHoughton-d7x]

Wow

[@williamharrison7797]

What about the fight with Jack Johnson

[@ScottHendrix-yz3du]

He was old then and hadn't been in the ring for SEVEN YEARS and still went 17 rounds.

[@williamharrison7797]

@ScottHendrix-yz3du yes, so it was an unfair observation for people to count that as a competitive fight for Jack Johnson. If Jeffries had been at his peak and Johnson had met him at a similar stage in his career, it certainly would have been less one-sided.

[@ScottHendrix-yz3du]

@williamharrison7797 absolutely!!! I can't help but wonder if the skin color was changed everyone would be saying how unfair it was. Rocky Marciano destroyed 4 black icons, all time greats and not one of them was over 38 and basically the same age as today's top ranked fighters but Rocky haters make it out like he beat up old men in wheel chairs.. Cus damato told Ali exactly why Joe Frazier would beat him because Ali had been out of boxing for more than 2 years. He said after 2 years a boxers speed and reflexes suffer drastically and Jefferies has been out 7...

[@williamharrison7797]

@ScottHendrix-yz3du Colour is not an issue for many of us and for the ones who it is, more fool them

[@williamharrison7797]

Marciano beat some top operators in Walcott, Archie Moore and Ezzard Charles. All of these men were world class greats and still extremely live opponents. Marcianco was a manufactured fighter, but with an absolute will of iron.

[@UncleTermite]

Teaching him nothing but bad habits , chin up in the air hands low and he’s falling into the bag instead of punching around it ….it’s all wrong no one trains like this anymore .

[@Dempsey1873]

People do that stuff all the time tho still even tho they shouldn't

[@UncleTermite]

@ Seasoned pros do not fight like that . That guy was 10 and 7 even before I looked that record up I knew it wasn’t going to be good .

[@antoniomosley9410]

​@UncleTermite you don't understand boxing stances. The hand positions of said boxer let him throw quick jabs and below the opponents eye line which makes it harder for said boxer to predict when or which punch he'll throw. Dropping into your punches isn't bad it's a extremely good skill if done properly. When you drop into your punches you cut the distance and smother the opponent. Sonny Liston did it all the time. In the past baiting was much more common so having chin up was on purpose to bait opponents in.

[@UncleTermite]

@ You don’t drop into any punch with your chin exposed,that’s why he had a 10/7 record . The training footage would be shown how not to train at least by me .

[@surfghost9121]

According to BoxRec, Al went 10-7-1.

[@joep8787]

Everybody looks good against a heavy bag.

[@julieseddon-v2s]

I gave the bag a draw here :- )

[@Section5_CdnIntelService]

Jeffries was no great shakes as a trainer. He knew little about defence as he was just a pure slugger. None of his proteges amounted to anything.

[@grawakendream8980]

he couldn't just say "jack johnson", he said "returned to fight a colored man". the bigoted society still deriding and diminishing johnson in 1930. and johnson was still fighting then, even though he was jeffries generation

[@whitemountainapache3297]

Who cares, Cuz?

[@grawakendream8980]

@@whitemountainapache3297 probably people who don't shared your opinions, i'd guess. there are a lot of them i'm sure. "cuz"

[@victormunoz300]

​@@grawakendream8980 always crying about racism but it's y'all that are racist keep living in the past, we all have the same freedoms and opportunities but y'all live and love the everyones against us victim mentality

[@RonaldLevao]

Grawakendream-- I agree. Sounds as if Al couldn't remember his name, but that is impossible to believe. Jeffries, despite prefight ugliness, was much more generous about Johnson after the bout itself, if the reports were correct--"I could never have beaten him," he said.

[@grawakendream8980]

@@RonaldLevao yeah after time passed jeff got more bitter, then shredded johnson in his autobiography and claimed he was poisoned

[@christopherkelley845]

Al dont hit hard