His top wins: Schmeling 2 Conn 1 Walcott 2 Pastor 2 M. Baer Guys I could consider maybe replacing Baer: James Braddock Primo Carnera Wins that...
Conn weighed 174 lbs. In his previous fight 3 weeks before fighting Louis he weighed 180 lbs. The "Conn middleweight" spiel is disingenuous. It's...
Galento held at least 3 ko wins over prime ranked contenders (N. Mann, Ettore, Nova) and ko wins over guys who were ranked at some point in their...
Did any of you save the video? I have a short snippet of the exhibition but I can't find the full version.
Conn didn't have the same footspeed in round 13 that he had in round 7, 8 and before. Watch the 20 minute version, not the 6 minute highlights.
#2 ranked Bob Pastor #8 ranked Lee Savold former or future contenders Gunnar Burland, Al McCoy and Gus Dorazio.
Fury and Joshua
Neither Bivol nor Canelo have gone up to HW and beaten ranked fighters though. Usyk has, like Conn once did and he beat fighters holding 25+ lbs...
And had proven that he could handle bigger men by beating other heavyweight contenders before fighting Louis. Conn was the p4p best fighter on...
He did knock out one of the best movers ever though so it evens out.
He went 8-0 with 6 Kos against the best movers he faced, how much trouble they gave him has been overblown. Most heavyweight atgs had a lot more...
Louis beat plenty of movers, plenty of times.
That Billy Conn weighed 169 lbs in his first fight against Joe Louis. The truth is Conn last weighed below 170 lbs two years before he fought...
An interesting story from Donovan on Louis' weakness to the right hand after the Schmeling fight I thought you might like [MEDIA]
