Julio Cesar Chavez greater than Joe Louis, yes?

Joe Louis 26-0 in title defenses, 22 K0's.
(Including KO win over 3-3 Johnny Davis which may have actually been a exhibition)

Title challange record: 1-1 1 KO

Total years as champion: 11 years, 7 months

Total successful title fights; 27 with 23 KO's

Record against undefeated fighters: 2-1 1 KO

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Julio Cesar Chavez 27-2 in title defenses, 18 KO's.
(3 divisions, plus 2 more in title unifications, if you wish to count them).

Title challange record: 4-2-2 3 KO's

Total years as champion: 12 years, 2 months

Total successful title fights; 31 with 21 KO's

Record against undefeated fighters: 7-2 6 K0's

 

It sounds like you agree with me somewhat.
As advertised many of Louis defenses were "bums". In modern times a 3-3 fighter like Davis would never get anywhere near a main event let alone a world title fight.

 

Louis vs (former, current, future) world champs: 12-3 10

chavez vs (former, current, future) world champs: 17-4 10

 

The only stat Chavez shares with Louis, all the rest of the stats Chavez surpasses Louis.
Had chavez title fights been 15 instead of 12, who knows how many more KO wins he would have had in title fights...?

 

By the time Louis reached 69 total fights in his career,
he was..........66-3 52 KO's.
Chavez was....69-0 61 KO's.

Another stat win for Chavez.

 

I count it as a draw.

 

I think 1993 is a good benchmark in his career. He finally lost after 87 wins to Pernell Whitaker, the fight being officially being scored a draw there by ****ing Whitaker out of the biggest win of his career.
chavez offically lost 3 fights later, that to Randall and in the return match beat Randall by an 8 round tech decision where Chavez apparently won by quitting (huh?). Yes, another decision at least as shady as the Whitaker draw. So there was twice that Chavez was able to win, or not lose by getting a big benefit of the doubt from the officials.
Chavez had gone 3-3 in his last 6 fights, not officially but "losses" to Randall twice and Whitaker once. After this, the diminished and obviously past-his-prime chavez was still able to rackup quite a few clear wins without controversial help from the officials against the world's best fighters.

Chavez reign wasn't continious because he kept moving up in weigh
and winning new titles. Not because he lost. Are you going to use
that as a minus against Chavez' accomplishments, really? atsch

 

Using the same measuring stick as I used in my examples of Chavez lucky offical decision calls, by the same token, Louis was lucky he didn't lose the decision to Walcott in their first fight, Louis wasn't a force after that fight. Louis, behind on the cards luckily KO'd Walcott in the rematch and retired.

 

Louis had no noteworthy wins after Walcott.