Pussyweight Battle, 1937
Tonight’s entry in our tour of odd historical boxing videos continues with the glorious theme of cat boxing, this time from a bizarre short put out by General Motors in 1937. Some of this could actually be slightly disturbing to you so you are warned.
I’m not sure which GM action from 1937 disturbs me more, this film or forcing workers to resort to a sit-down strike to get union recognition.
It’s also entirely unclear to me why GM would make this video.
On the other hand, the dog reporters are pretty cool.
Looks like a prankish reel done by Jam Handy, in the style of the MGM Dogville comedies.
Aaaargh…this Boxing series is more annoying than your continual insistence that Larry Bird was the greatest.
I shall continue to counter.
Because he fought his most famous fights when he was past his athletic prime, most folks don’t have a sense of how athletic and unorthodox Ali was. Pre-Vietnam-Resistance Ali video has been generally fuzzy.
Here is some relatively new footage of the Cleveland Williams fight:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJUzl0aFHZw
Behold.
You are the onion on my belt.
I agree. I saw a bunch of Ali’s early fights on the tube when I was but a wee thing. He made every one of the guys who went up against him, many of whom were perfectly good boxers, look like hopeless pugs.
It’s interesting how fo few clinches there are.
The enforced three-year hiatus came during what likely would have been the best years of his career, and he still was the best boxer in the world for several years after he came back.
I’d argue that the cat-boxing is more that making workers do a sit-down strike in order to gain union recognition. This is basically because making workings do a sit-down strike makes sense in terms of ususual business practices. Its evil but not unusual, so its not disturbing. This cat-boxing makes no sense and therefore is disturbing.
It could be worse, GM could have made their workers submit their pet cats to a cat-boxing tournament in order to get union recognition.
Jesus, with that kind of sick mind there’s got to be room in corporate America for you.
Oh come on, I was only joking and to win against corporate America you need to know their thought process. At least slightly.
I don’t want to work in corporate America. You have to hurt people and the hours are horrible.
This video should begin and end any argument that the private sector is rational. These are the things I think of when my dad tries to tell me how superior business is to government.
LBJ’s position on the Taft-Hartley act was intransigent, to say the … look, kitties with boxing gloves!! KITTIES WITH BOXING GLOVES!!! hee hee hee!!!
No different than any number of tee vee adverts today that attract attention but have little or nothing to do w/ the product or service being pimped.
I would watch more TV today if commercials featured cat boxing.
Did the winner of that boxing match get a cheeseburger?