Any footage of Elmer Ray, Eddie Booker or Turkey Thompson ?

Well Braddock was the Champion and though his record reads like a Journeyman he had just beaten the heavy favorite and world champion in Max Baer in his previous fight. Like you stated 2 years prior.

Louis was dropped but he got up and dominated the fight and knocked out Braddock, which was no easy feat. Braddock was very durable and Louis put him down for the count.

Galento as you stated was not polished but by all accounts had heavy hands and was wild and unpredictable.

I know I drew Parallels with Tyson and Klitschko, in regards to the "bum" thing. I was just saying many times dominant fighters are hit with the "well they haven't fought anybody" thing.

Each fighter has weaknesses, obviously one of Louis's was his chin. But other than the first fight against Max Schmeling, and way later in his career vs Rocky Joe would go down but would always get up to win unlike another all-time great Lennox Lewis who went down twice and stayed down (well McCall was a ref stoppage but he was toast) Now he of course avenged those losses so one of his weaknesses (Lennox) was under estimating certain opponents I suppose. Point being Joe Louis reigned as champion for 12 years and over those 12 years he fought some good fighters and some average ones.. And similar to another one of my all-time favorite heavyweights, Evander Holyfield he to would sometimes struggle when we didn't expect him to. But of course he would also pull a spectacular victory sometimes when we also least expected it. Kind of the same thing but Louis always won his fights even when not looking his best. Or being troubled by an opponent we didn't deem in the same class as him.

And in the hypothetical sense matching up Louis opponents versus Klitschko or Tyson is tough being its such a drastically different era that it's hard to envision.. The sheer size of Klitschko might negate anything a smaller fighter like Galento would want to do, so you may be right. But who knows if Tony got home with one of those wild swings Klitschko might be knocked off balance or even down who knows or they might not phase him at all... And yes Tyson because of styles probably annihilates both Braddock and Tony.

But does Louis lose to Brewster, Sanders, Puritty? Who knows honestly.... now Klitschko obviously changed his style after those losses so maybe he could've beaten Sanders in a rematch but we'll never know because they fed him to big brother (the killer of the family Vitali) Does Louis lose to Douglas or Holyfield, yes, no, maybe??

Anyway I enjoy the debate so if you have more to add then let it carry-on ..

Sorry to hijack the thread off-topic but I just wanted to respond to Mendoza