Rid**** Bowe v Max Baer

Maxie needed punching room for maximum power which was not delivered through straight punches.

He had neither the height and reach to jab and box with Bowe at long range, nor did he have the shortness of punching to deal with the best infighter of all the tall heavyweight champions.

Big Daddy also had Eddie Futch for providing training and strategy in the developmental stages. Speed is very seriously in Bowe's favor here.

Best for best, both could take an excellent punch, and on film it only appears Lou Nova finally forces Maxie to the deck involuntarily to end the Larruper's career.

Bowe by UD.

 

Baer doesn't have the skills to be compensative with Bowe. Bowe on his best night could beat anybody.

Baer couldn't.

 

So could Primo Carnera.

Baer had worse defence. Was wide open , clubbed his shots, punched to wide.

Bowe would pepper him off from the outside. His long fast over hand right would never miss.

 

I'd say Bowe gives him a pretty good whooping!
It'll be a late stoppage ala Pierre Coetzee, I see Maxie sagging against the ropes just like Coetzer in that fight and the ref saves him.

In no way am I comparing Coetzer to Baer just the stoppage. Baer will remain upright as he's tough as nails but he will have taken huge punishment.

Baer does have a huge punch but Bowe had a great chin, you could sting him but he'd keep coming. I just don't see Bowe losing on a big shot. Holyfield dropped him with one but that wasn't prime Bowe in that 3rd fight. So without a KO how does Baer win? He doesn't, Bowe will control him with the jab and hurt him to the body and on the inside with his uppercuts.

People bringing up the Golota fights is unfair as I think Bowe was done at that point. We obviously didn't know it back then going into fight number 1 but we saw Golota dominate him. Bowe was horribly out of shape but an "in shape" Bowe did pretty much the same thing in fight number 2. Thank god Andrew threw both fights away (for Bowe anyway)

Bowe tko9

 

Bowe TKO 2. Baer had top tier punching power in the right hand and
was cagey, but Bowe is too big, strong, and skilled. Bowe pumps the jabs
and cathes Max with left hooks, uppercuts, and the overhand right.

 

Herbie Hide was every bit the puncher Louis was. Not nearly the fighter, but he was bigger and could really whack. Bert Cooper was also a fearsome banger.

 

BTW I think Buddy Baer was the better fighter, Max just had the personality.

 

lol just noticed a Coetzee did slip in there before a Coetzer.

But Yes the one Of "Great Mustache" Pierre Coetzer..

Man Bowe did bend the rules all the time didn't he, part of me thinks maybe it was actually poetic that Golota so thoroughly thrashed him within and and outside of the rules.

But yes Baer takes a beating here, and I'm sure Bowe will as always hit on the break, low, behind the head you name it.

I still remember before the days of the internet reading Pierre Coetzer's name consistently in the rankings in all the boxing mags I bought back then.

KO, The Ring, Boxing Illustrated, Boxing Scene and countless more, they had so many back then. I never knew what he looked like as I never saw one photo just his wins and his name next to his ranking.

Then finally one night HBO was showing a Heavyweight Card and they opened the show showing the faces of the top 10 and boom there he was, My first thought was hey look a darker haired bigger stache version of Coetzee..

Turns out he didn't have the dynamite in his fists like Coetzee did but he was a tough SOB for sure.

 

I could buy the idea that Hide hit as hard as Louis, but he did not have Louis's finishing wizardry.

 

Co-sign. It's ridiculous to give Baer much of a chance here. He's outgunned in every conceivable department except perhaps, and only perhaps, chin.

 

Wow!