I agree with much of this, Cobb had more of an attrition type style and a solid chin and when you got tired of hitting or ran out of wind he would keep punching but it usually took quite a few to get you reeling and very few clean KO's ...the man had zero skill almost as bad as Chuck Wepner but I think Tex had more power then WEP but Cobb was a rough dude with no quit much like WEP
Tex had decent power, not great.But he did clock Michael Dokes hard a few times in their initial encounter.
I remember in his fight with Holmes when he was getting the **** knocked out of him, he turned to the ref during a clinch, and said to the ref, your White help me, LOL.. Another time he failed a drug test, and made up some lame excuse, I was jogging on the Beach in California and some surfer dude blew Marijuana in my face.. Dude was hilarious.
Cobb was a big strong guy and that's pretty much where all his power came from. He lacked speed and explosiveness but his punches were most effective by accumulation. Cobb wasn't the worse man to ever challenge for a world title. He was a big guy who kept coming with a good workrate behind a jab kinda reminded me of Hasim Rahman. Holmes put a real whooping on him but I gurantee that wasn't Holmes easiest title fight Cobb kept coming the entire time and Holmes had to work throughout.
I can remember after his fight with Holmes, he stated "I will be remembered for the man who beat up Larry Holmes's fists with his head"
Hell, he didn't have the explosive one punch power of Marco Antonio Barrera, but he was a bull strong bison of a man who would exhaust an opponent through sheer indestructibility and "truculence"....as Howard Cosell might say....before Tex fought Larry Holmes, that is.
He was on verge of defeating Dokes as well. He did the most with what he had. Late start to the sport for a naturally tough guy that like contact sports. Threw arm punchers and was limited but game.