I see a 75-76 ron lyle giving joe louis a dangerous fight

Cope.

 

Ron was dangerous, absolutely. Eventually getting run over by Louis? Certain.

 

Smells like heresy in here...

 

It really is blatant, Ron Lyle would be lucky to win three rounds of 15 and if he goes at Louis like he did Foreman he’d be lucky to see past the second.

 

Yeah, and I get all that, but hear me out:

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He’s so functional- did you hear about how he used to do a thousand push up’s a day? On just a single bowl of spinach, if he had have eaten a few more calories he’d have expanded to monstrous proportions at least Mr Olympia ready.

 

Sure he lost to both, but dude, he outboxed the greatest heavyweight boxer and outslugged the greatest heavyweight slugger. He could and would probably take a lot more than 3 rounds against Joe Louis.

 

Neither Foreman or Ali are the boxer Louis is and your point about Ali is debatable but not worth arguing about, I cannot imagine how badly it would go for Lyle if he tried to box Joe Louis and I don’t think there is a single fighter to have been born yet, who should be advised to stay on top of Louis and try to get him out of there the same way Lyle did to Foreman.

 

Seventies supremacism is a sad movement: renegades who have broken ranks from the True Cause. They accept the moderns' superiority to a point, but have mustered their tie-dye-and-bellbottomed ranks onto the last redoubt of their childhoods, the 1970s. There they sit, shooting at both the antiquarians behind them, and the contemptible gym-nerds of the 2020s ahead of them. It is a movement born of despair. They can expect little more than getting picked off piecemeal by cognitive dissonance and grouchy Louis nostalgists.

 

Everyday we step onto the battlefield, little by little we toil, laying the bricks of the old world on new soil and in the place of less old bricks and hope the people to come look back upon what we built and say “1970s Boxing is good but no 1930s boxing”

 

It's a halfway house to modernist nihilism. Neither steadfast enough to back Louis come what may, nor worldly enough to abandon the heroes of younger days.

 

“Louis is the GOAT and Ali is a dope.” thus spoke Zarathustra

 

Lou Nova was better than Norton. Jack Johnson takes out Foreman. Jerry Quarry beats Sharkey, but Sharkey beats Holyfield. Louis, and Ali his avatar, watch their kingdom in contentment. All eras are One.

This is the Way.

 

Swirling in the abyss the unknown quantity that is John L Sullivan holds the very fabric of the fantasy boxing universe together- should we see, we shall be lost. All is one- but Louis is the key.

 

You are wise in the ways of the Great Ring of Life. May Sullivan's mustache never drip wax on you.