This. It's like the Classic forum doesn't watch the footage anymore. Baer was a little guy compared to Lewis, didn't have his skills, didn't have his punch and may have had a better chin. Baer's chin isn't going to win a fight against Lewis, but it might well win him a trip to the infirmary.
I can guarantee you, that Lewis did not take a better punch that Baer, or even take one nearly as well!
Maybe I’m missing something but Baer does absolutely nothing for me, I just don’t get it. Fair enough a great chin but what skills did he possess? Sure a big right hand but then again he could be extremely wild with his delivery with that. No jab, no feints, fairly flat footed. Unless he pulls out a lucky punch then Lewis decimates him.
Well, since you obviously know best - a personal guarantee from you should settle this particular question, once and for all.
I’ll have to look at more footage, I’ve just seen him as upright with not much going on, no feints, no upper body or head movement. I mean he must have had something to get where he was at the end of the day he was the heavyweight champion of the world.
Baer removes Lewis’s head with the first punch in the first round, sending it into the stratosphere, where it circles the entire globe, returns to his neck and reattached itself. Then Lewis outjabs him from the outside for 12 rounds.
The problem, in a head to head context, is that the highest level of Lewis' era was much higher than that of Baer's. There were a lot of folks who beat Baer who wouldn't sniff a Top Ten ranking in Lewis' era.
Not only this but looook at the fooootaaaagee! You really don't have to be a genius to see that Lewis is technically in the next timezone from Baer.
Top athletes from 30ths dont beat todays top athletes in any sports. Maybe if he was born in modern times with modern training he had a change but thats a big maybe