The perfect heavyweight

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  1. Terminator

    Terminator Active Member Full Member

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    Fabio Wardley & Gene Tunney get into the teleport machine from The Fly at the same time. They fuse at the genetic level to become the same human being. The being inherits wardley’s chin, toughness & punch power, and tunney’s footwork & defence.

    Is this being the greatest heavyweight in history?
     
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    Yorbals Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Wardleys ears have already fallen off, or so it seems when you look at him square on
     
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    Mandela2039 OFFICIAL THREAD DIDDLER banned Full Member

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    The best heavyweight of all time is Joe Louis.

    Perfect frame, perfect size, perfect reach

    Best punching technique of all time
    Best combination puncher at Heavyweight
    Very fast, both in feet and handspeed
    Could kill both small men, regular men and tall superheavyweights

    He could outskill you, wear you out, consistently outbox you, make you miss, or end the fight with one punch, and he could certainly do all of the things mentioned at the same time.


    I have no shadow of a doubt in my mind, that if you put Louis against any Heavyweight that's ever lived, you would have to pick him, you'd have no other option but to make him the favorite, the most likely outcome is that The Brown Bomber will win.
     
  4. Hotep Kemba

    Hotep Kemba Active Member Full Member

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    Joe Louis did not have "very fast" feet. He didn't have "fast" feet period.

    I also don't know how he wins a matchup with Ali or Holmes.
     
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  5. Seamus

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    Wlad was perfect.

    End thread.
     
  6. Gazelle Punch

    Gazelle Punch Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    If you combined Joe Louis and Wilder you’d have the perfect HW.
     
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    68-69 Ali no exile
     
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  8. ikrasevic

    ikrasevic War for Souls Full Member

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    Usyk plus Wilders right hand
     
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  9. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    How do you combine a compact, hyper efficient and accurate puncher with a windmiller?
     
  10. ikrasevic

    ikrasevic War for Souls Full Member

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    Egg chin
     
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  11. thistle

    thistle Boxing Junkie

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    either side of 6' 2" in Height, 210 - 215lbs,

    a willing Boxer / fighter, moving with certainty & controlled readiness and when his ringcraft & skill knows it's time to strike, meet, punch or deliver an onslaught, well don't blink.

    JJW, Louis and of course Charles type of Boxer / fighters...
    Jeremy Williams was an excellent Boxer & fighter; he just didn't get to the point of the afore mentioned.
     
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  12. Gazelle Punch

    Gazelle Punch Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Imagine a 6”7 Joe Louis with that power
     
  13. thistle

    thistle Boxing Junkie

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    NO, we don't want Super - Heavyweights, leave them to their own Division... give us back Normal Sized Heavyweights!
     
  14. MaccaveliMacc

    MaccaveliMacc Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Take Wladimir Klitschko and give him his brother's chin and balls. That's the perfect heavyweight.
     
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  15. Terminator

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    Would still be deficient in footwork & defence vs the wardley-tunney hybrid