How bad does Butterbean lose to Joe Louis

Seems a perfect candidate for the bum of the month club then.

 

Honestly, Butterbean would win.

He has the modern nutrition to back him up. Louis doesn't compare to the scientific advantages Butterbean has access to.

 

He wasn't half the fighter of those "bums"

 

Yeah that may be true but the fact that they coined that bum of the month name seem to suggest that either fans and boxing hacks back then weren’t very knowledgeable or today’s generation for whatever reason hold those old fighters in a whole higher esteem than they did back then even though they lived through it and most if not all of us here weren’t even born when they were fighting.

 

There's a big gulf in class between a poor world title challenger (in an era of one belt per division), and a club fighter.

 

It's like thinking you could cycle as fast as a slow airplane.

 

So we are comparing bums of different eras and generations now? There’s enough debate and disagreements with who was the best champions from different eras but now it’s which era had the best bums?

 

Butterbean wasn't even a "bum" of a professional fighter. He was a sideshow, a carnival attraction.

 

he sure did look hungry.....................

 

The only way the Bean beats the Brown Bomber is if he falls on him ...

 

No, you are comparing fighters on totally different levels. There's not even an argument to be had. Comparing Louis's "bums" to Butterbean is as absurd as comparing Andrew Hartley to Broner.

 

You guys are forgetting that The Bean knocked out Louis Monaco who knocked out Buster Douglas (sit down, boxrec warriors, we'll go with Kevin McBride if you want to get technical) who knocked out Tyson who knocked out Holmes who beat Ali who beat Liston who beat Nino who beat Ezzard who beat, you guessed it, Joe Louis.

 

He looked pretty well fed to me.

 

Lets see, we have a guy who looks like He's auditioning for the next x men movie hoping to be cast as "The Blob". Hes got a good chin, power and heart going for him (even if that heart is weighed down by lard and overexerting itself). Speed is nonexistant, defense leaky and mediocre at best, and YMCA level stamina and technique.

In the other corner, a guy who needs no introduction. Devastating combination of fluid power punching, speed, accuracy, and ring IQ. Not the best chin in the world, somewhat slow feet, but recovers quickly and plenty of heart and stamina.

Oh and despite a slight height and reach advantage, Joe's giving up the equivalent of the difference between him and every weight class beneath him in weight. This would be a cause for concern if his opppnent was an athletic specimen with functional strength, size, and explosive fast twitch muscles but apparently the only "function" Butterbean's muscles do when he's not hitting the heavy bag or knocking out uber drivers is shoveling enough food to feed a small village. It certainly makes Joe look silly jogging in the hot sun while eating as though he's homeless when he could simply eat what he wants and still make money punching people!

Here's how it might go down:

Michael Buffer is introducing the fighters. Joe is in the ring shadow boxing. He hears his opponent being introduced as he climbs up the wooden steps to the ring. Unfortunately, despite the steps being made from freshly cut mahogany and reinforced with 1/2 inch thick steel screws and plates, Butterbean's weight is enough to make the 2nd step snap like a twig. His leg goes through and the skin on his calf shreds. He now has splinters and a deep gash oozing blood.

Eric Esch manages to get his leg out with assistance from his coach, but he hollers in pain, stumbles, and crashes into the cameraman. They both hit the floor, Eric on top, and he crushes both the camera (which cuts the live feed) and breaks tje cameraman's ribs. He burns 800 calories getting up and another 200 helping the man to his feet.

There is now an uproar at showtime's call center. Thousands of infuriated fans are demanding a refund for a cancelled PPV due to Eric's injuries. Eric has a press conference where he announces that he will clean the statue at the Joe Louis arena and do exhibition fights to raise money for the injured cameraman and all the angry subscribers.

When asked how he thinks the fight would have turned out, he responds "Are you kidding?! I would have been target practice. Best case scenario for me is Joe gets tired after wailing away at my blubber, injures his wrist, and I win by RTD!".