What you're describing has nothing to do with Baer [MEDIA]
Louis got 30% while Sharkey got 25%, it was a good deal for Jack for his last fight. However, between the Carnera and Louis fights, Sharkey...
I will buy your book at some point, I'm very interested in the sources you mention. There is an article from Donovan in Liberty magazine 1939...
But why would he cross paths with Loughran, Shucco and Louis if he had no aspirations for a title fight after he lost his champion status?
So it wasn't done by anyone at heavyweight, and the bantamweight who managed had defenses against people with records of 2-10, 0-1 and 0-2 while...
Best way to estimate this is to look how close these guys where to the point where they were washed up. Take Charles, the youngest, for example....
Now I'm getting your argument. You're saying that Louis should have beaten Franklin on top of Nova and Conn within the year. Now this is where I...
So how do you go from "the world title was something special" to "a single defense over Franklin trumps two defenses against Conn and Nova"?...
Tunney, Schmeling, Braddock (haven't seen him do anything suspicious on film or read anything bad about him), Louis, Charles, Patterson, Frazier.
The so average Schmeling who became world champion. Give me a break.
Marciano. He was downright masterful. [MEDIA] https://imgur.com/a/pqQoM15 Have a listen at 36:28 [MEDIA] The others that come close are...
JJW: 2-1 Maxim (1947), 2-2 Charles, 1-0 Bivins, 1-0 H. Johnson, 1-0 Lee Oma Machen: 2-0 Maxim (1957), 0-1-1 Folley, 0-1 H. Johnson, 1-0 Doug Jones...
You answered to the spirit of my question not to the implication of becoming his actual manager and trying to match him with safe options, cheers...
Hard to find a fighter with better jab defense than Louis, at least at heavyweight.
