Billy Conn

Conn is definitely a pound for pound great. He was beating world champions while he was still a teenager and had established an incredible resume by the time he met Louis.

The war robbed him of some of his best years which is a shame because he was surely going to make big waves.

 

The most impressive thing is his ability - punching technique, speed, movement, combinations. Wonderful boxer to watch.

If he pot shotted Louis and stuck and moved he would have beat Louis. But he decided to fight on the inside throwing 6 punch hook combinations and moved out. He managed to pull this off for quite a while before getting caught

Is Conn better than Tunney? I think so

 

A strong case can be made.

 

great light heavies have done well in many Heavyweight eras of boxing but not Bob Foster. Was he a worse fighter than Conn or was he fighting better fighters i.e. Frazier and Ali?

 

Perhaps a little bit of both but-

Above all he was less well suited stylisticaly to taking on heavyweights than Conn. He was a fighter who relied on his physical advantages a lot.

 

If you put Bob Foster in Billy Conn's era then he would wreak havoc in the light heavyweight division, but get disapointing results when he stepped up to heavyweight just as he did in his own era.

If you put Billy Conn in the 70s then it would be him and not Jimmy Ellis who faced off against Joe Frazier for the vacant title during Muhamad Ali's exile.

 

I remember reading something about Conn beating up a mugger back in the 90's. Imagine trying to rob an old man, and getting pounded in return. Conn was always ballsy. Conn gets critisized a lot for going for the knock out against Joe, but I think you owe anybody who goes for the gusto a round of applause.

 

Wasn´t it suppose to be Dempsey?

This bull**** story gets repeated with all different fighters.

 

Dempsey died in the early 80's. This was supposed to have happened in the 90's. It may have come from Fight News. They had a cartoon drawing of an Old Conn beating up a mugger.

 

On the night he fought Louis, Conn was one of the best 175lbers ever. he was top 5

 

oNE OF THE GREATEST pure boxers ever. Top 5 atg light-heavyweight