[GIF] Prime Joe Louis, freakish upper body

To me I love the fact that Louis wasn't a physical freak in any ways (looks wise). It would take away from the sublimity of his style to know that he was reliant on one or two particular inherited things to achieve it. Louis is actually the antithesis of a freak, a perfectly proportioned athlete who learned to utilise his body in the most efficient way possible, hence why he's considered such a textbook fighter. No point in the textbook if you need to have arms like an octopus to achieve the things set out in it.

 

Did I miss the freakish part of Louis that everybody else is seeing?

 

And with them I think it was more a bit ribcage and back, than the actual chest muscles.

 

LOL for real I've seen guys at my local gym more ripped than Joe

 

He had a very armonic and healthy looking body with low body fat but nothing freakish about it..he had good genetics for sure

 

You ever forget you're hetero for just a second?

 

Is this a "Louis wasn't that great" thread? No way.

Boxers like him are born, not made. So they could hang with any century. Maybe a Hun could take it. Maybe..

 

I think what makes it freakish is that he had that physique in the 30s

 

A model look by today's standards, even the face. It's just that Joe Louis didn't go through model training, so he doesn't know how to smile.

 

….only when I look in the mirror. I reach out but the other me is never obtainable.