Second greatest heavyweight Galento would knock down?

Theoretically, I can only see him flooring (but still losing to) one of the smaller top level Heavyweights: Patterson as he comes in aggressively, maybe Walcott or Moore if they got careless. I think Marciano, Frazier and Dempsey would soak up any shots he lands and decimate him. Most of the bigger guys would simply light him up from long range. He was tough but far too hittable.

 

Ali

 

He had the power to deck just about anybody. The key is exactly WHO he could land on at the right time and do it before he got destroyed himself .

 

Ali is excluded? He got dropped by left hooks.

 

Maybe Butterbean

 

He could knock down a keg of Schlitz. (As insignificant as he is, why is he mentioned so often on this forum?)

 

There is literally no higher rung that he can stand on, than dropping Louis, with the arguable exception of Ali.

From there it turns on who is your #3.

Name them, and I will say whether he was likely to drop them.

 

Yes, and Louis had to work in the pocket, more than many of teh alternatives.

 

Anyone who was KD'd by this amateur is disqualified from serious consideration as being a boxer. I know prelim guys, middleweights, who would clown him.

 

Galento could knock down anybody.

 

There's not a chance in high heaven he would knock down prime Ali for mine. People must be thinking of Sonny Banks Ali.

I'm thinking Floyd Patterson and Dempsey at this early junction.

 

Good picks mate.