Better finisher Joe Louis or Jack Dempsey?

Tell this to the 200 boxing writers in the 1950s who voted Dempsey as the best heavyweight from 1900 to the 1950s...What did they know S ? After all those guys saw them ringside, whilst you base your nonsense on sheer obsession of clinical hatred for a boxer who after all never hurt you...I give up!...
I who loved both Dempsey and Louis DEFER to who was greater, but I unlike you have no axe to grind except an open mind to
large number of boxing experts who saw Dempsey [pre-Tunney]
and observed an unusual talent based on ferocity, extreme
swiftness and power, combined with a will to conquer second to none. In other words a tough S.O.B. who would have given any fighter AGITA when he was at his best...Sayonara :hi:

 

Not only that Burt but Schmeling himself said Dempsey was head and shoulders above every fighter he ever saw.

 

Apparently the young Tyson when he still wanted to know all about his predecessors, and became the scumbag that we all know today, had huge respect for Joe Louis, but stated that the sheer ferocity of Dempsey had him in total awe.

 

As I posted before I read a terrific autobiography that Max Schmeling wrote a few years before he died. Printed in Germany
and transcribed into English, Schmeling as a young boxer was a sparring partner of Dempsey when Dempsey as a champion toured Germany...At the end of the book Schmeling listed dozens of the best fighters he had seen in his long and arduous life, but the he mentioned Dempsey who he said "was a cut above all the other great fighters"...I was duly impressed for who knew more about the great heavyweights than a Max Schmeling who lived until the age of 99 ?...

 

Oh Yee of Little Faith !

 

Wat did u prove in the ring?
I'll take Schmelings and Arcels word over yours.

 

Right on Burt