Both were very poor, they couldn't and wouldn't live upto the standards of the 80's, 90's or the modern boxing era/s. Nova's technique wasn't ''decent'' he was a massive noob.
I watched through the first clip. It's a fun bout when then slug, but the technique is very crude. This isn't a Canzoneri Vs Chocolate style battle. Just a slugfest, and not near the best slugfest I've seen either.
I love these fights. They were very winnable for Baer but at this point he just didnt have the same fire he once did.
Galento was around 250 lbs against Baer, so I don't think that Ruiz is 30+lbs heavier. I agree that Galento had worse technique, but we are talking about Ruiz being tank, technique is not part of that. Galento was as tough as possible and he was powerful man, probably harder (though worse overall) hitter than Ruiz.
He was 244 which was 10-20 pounds over his weight for his top performances, such as Nova before the Baer fight. Ruiz was 267 for Joshua making him 23 pounds heavier than for the Baer fight and 30+ more than Galento’s version of fit. Technique does matter. You aren’t a tank if you’re losing your balance after throwing punches. You’re a tank if Joshua drills you and you keep your feet planted and counter back.
So Ruiz is perfectly fine with twice as much fat as Galento against Baer, but Tony at 244 is overweighed? I see double standards here. Ruiz got knocked down by Joshua, fortunately for him Joshua wasn't Louis and he was too sloppy to finish him and got countered. Galetno also came right at Louis eating tons of hard punches but Louis was simply too good - he would be too good for Ruiz too.
I don’t enjoy them at all because of the extremely poor technical level at which they were fought. Brainless slugfests have never been my thing. But to each his own.
Where did you get this 2x number from? Scale Ruiz down to 5’9 and wouldn’t be that heavy. Now when Galento caught Louis, fortunately for Louis, Galento wasn’t Ruiz and he was too sloppy to finish him off.
