Tua was a lot better schooled, more athletic, better conditioned (in his prime) and more powerful than Galento, you fukking yokels.
Stop sucking Tua's ***** foxy. Its not adulation but an appreciation of the skills that these guys possessed in comparison to some of the latter day behemoths who rely primarily on size and power. Tua was a very good fighter, just not great. His record shows that he could be outboxed and he had an over-reliance on landing the equalizer. If he is as fantastic as you think he would have been a dominant champion when in fact he failed on the big occasion. Louis was champ for a long period of time and is in most knowledgeable boxing fan's top 5 heavyweights. Just accept that he was the better fighter and his record backs it up.
Better schooled but never showed it, Galento flashed Better counter punching ability in setting up his hook and has the better wins for it More athletic in what possible meaningful way, they showed equal hand speed in single power shots and carried late power. Prove he was more powerful, both men seemed to be very strong and had effective power. What makes Tua stronger?
Grow up you fuking pr ick. I'm not even a Tua fan. I just consider insignificant morons like you to be 1, 000 % dyed in the wool old timer nut huggers who are not worth a candle. Tua lands his left hook on any chin cleanly, that guy is going down. And if a crude slugger like Marciano can hit it and stop Joe, then Tua certainly can. The difference being it isn't some stumpy little 187 guy he is trying to keep off, rather a 230 lb tank, with a far better chin than his own.
The way I see it, is it's much like old timers claiming the Real Madrid of the 50' would beat the Real Madrid, or Barca of today. Bullsh it, but funny.
Tua, fighting prime Louis, would not beat him. Two completely different classes of fighter. You can't find a more highly skilled hwt than Louis. He did everything well and beyond. Those that say Joe had no footwork or could not move could not be more wrong. Against certain opponents he would cleverly side step and counter. When a counter hurt his opponent he would then open up with both hands. This is exactly how he would fight Tua. Don't believe me? Watch Louis bouts with Galento and Max Baer. Very very little chance Tua beats or even comes close to beating prime Louis.
Galento acted like a joke. However His hook was a highly feared weapon during his time. He won 10 consecutive bouts by Ko going into his title match vs Louis.
Very silly. Very very little chance Tua wins. More than likely Louis beats him to a pulp. Louis was the best of the best and this is why he is rated along with Ali as the best ever. Tua is not rated and will never be rated as great simply he was not a great fighter and technically he was a poor hwt. He got by on left hook power alone without any other skill. Louis by 9th round tko as the ref must stop the fight due to the concussive forse of many multiple Louis punches.
Apparently someone who knew that your buddy Paccy would be treated like a sparring partner by a old Mayweather...........translation you are clueless in the game of boxing.
The Brown Bomber has to move and tame Tua with his excellent jab because once you stick a jab into Tua's face he is defused plus keep him honest with a couple of sharp rights. However louis did not move and some times liked to trade standing right in front of you...........it will only take one flush solid left hook to change the dynamics of the fight and I can say with certainty that Tua is going to take loius'' shots a LOT better than Louis will take Tua's hook, guaranteed. If the Brown Bomber boxes he should win but if he falls asleep or starts trading his chances of getting stopped cold go up dramatically.
Jones Jr was allegedly a better class of fighter than Glen Johnson, or Tarver. Lewis was allegedly a better class of fighter than Rahman. So fuking what?