Do you agree with dmatos assessment of Louis vs Ali?

Ali UD. Louis great but slow feet. If he had trouble catching Billy Conn and Walcott...

 

There were a lot of versions of Ali and of Louis. IMO, a prime Louis catches and dispatches most versions of Ali with the exception of that latter stage 74 Ali who dealt Foreman his career changing defeat.

For all the talk of Ali's greatness, Louis was better.

 

Ali prolly too big, skilled, athletic for Louis. Louis much better power, has puncher's chance.

 

Alis own comments in the book by Thomas Hauser callEd The Life And Times.

Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee, Joe Louis wont hit what Joe Louis cant see.

I tend to agree.

 

Ali not only beats Louis, he has a real chance of dropping him along the way.imo.

 

Louis wins, in my opinion. Each has style traits that the other can exploit, though.

 

I think Louis would outjab Ali and land to the body. Whether he could KO him late I don't know. Louis at his peak was incredible fast, it's weird to me that people label him "slow".

 

I like Ali by decision. Mobility being the main factor.

 

Louis was too slow of foot to even slightly trouble Ali. Wide UD possibly a late stoppage, but unless Ali got incredibly careless it is impossible for him to lose the fight.

 

CORRECT U. It is not how "fast" your feet move, it is how correct your hand speed and mind can coordinate and trigger the
"openings" your mind "sees". Couple this with perfect "leverage "
and you have Joe Louis, at his zenith the greatest and most potent combination puncher the fight game ever produced...The Joe Louis of the Max Baer and Schmeling #2 era was a lightning
lights out destroyer who would have surely at some point landed
his powerful combination punches on Clay/Ali and badly hurt him
and dispatch him sooner or later in the fight. Ali never got hit with so many one-two combos ever in his career, and as a
prominent boxing physician of those days stated " the human body was not made to withstand the blows of Joe Louis once he had you hurt ". Amen.
P.S. for new posters who know little of what the young Joe Louis
attack looked like google the Max Baer fight and watch the triple
left hooks landing on Max Baer's concrete chin, so fast and potent, once described by a writer "like a coil spring unwinding".
Joe Louis for the ages...
it takes your breath away...

 

+1

 

I like Joe's precise, extremely efficient punching technique and combos here. Timing and placement can nullify speed, and Louis does it well enough to win.

 

I believe Damato changed his assessment of Ali later on,after the foreman fight.claiming ali was the best Hw ever,not Louis.Louis to predictable for the mover,ali would run circles around him,70's Ali wins easy.

 

A lot would depend on what strategy Louis implemented.

He could win this, but only with the right plan.