David Tua v.s Joe Louis

This match up is mentioned because of styles, not overall ring merit .. Tua started blazing, had very fast hands and exceptional power ... Louis was dropped early by Braddock and Baer and strung early by Galento and Mauriello .. I think it is a very interesting match up .. Louis would have to box early to keep Tua off him and land a few to make Tua cautious .. that was Lennox's ticket and Joe would have to do the same because no doubt Tua could badly hurt Louis if he landed ... this sport is all about styles and Louis never fought a 230 pound tank with blazing fists and power like Tua ..

 

Louis could box but his style was to come forward and use combinations to score KOs looking for openings

Louis also hit the canvas plenty of times in his career

If you want to fight Tua that way you will need a great chin or a big reach advantage

Louis has his hands full here

 

Ike said he studied lots of footage of Harry Greb to prepare for that fight.

 

Joe wins, Tua would take a terrible beating in the latter rounds

 

As silly as ever you are!
People cary greatly in how hittable thet are.
Carnera being sicky is as outrageous as Tuaman having stick legs.
He could not have such a bad chin to not be kept down by none other than Max Baer, even though he seemed clueless in protecting himself.

Crafty fakery re: Louis surviving Tua.

 

Why are we even arguing about this?

Didn't Tua abundantly prove his ability to fall short in his own era?

 

Hey, man. I may be silly, but I will wake up tomorrow the same way and you will have...engaged me in it. Carnera was a very sick man with the gigantopithicism. You know that. He could barely fit into a car. How's he gonna beat someone like Tua? Wait-what was this about? I lost track.

 

Without reading previous input, Tua would have to be the established favorite with Louis a lukewarm underdog.

Next thread...

 

I will say Tua beat more champions in hypothetical imaginary fights that never happened than he did in real life....so he has that going for him.

 

Come on...You know the answer to that.

 

Louis beat 38 ranked fighters, Tua beat one....

Next thread.

 

He's lineal in Classic.

 

It was clearly his misfortune, to be contemporaneous with giants like Byrd and Rahman.

Take them out of the equation and he dominates!

 

No greater indictment on that era can be made. Congratulations for getting High Score.

 

If Tua fought in the 1930’s he would somehow be in full color on film while everything else would be black and white. He’d look two times bigger than Louis, and would be far more explosive, because his movement would be speed corrected compared to every other subject in the frame. His calfs and thighs would show veins, while Louis would look like a somewhat muscular blob of mass.

At least that’s how modernistas envision it in their heads.