Could Joe Louis beat Mike Tyson?

Do you go to a football game, drink a bottle of beer and then try to hit the ref with it when he makes a call you disagree with? Or smash it against your own head?

 

Anyone who punches back is bad for Mike Tyson. He's looked upon as a bully who folded when things got tough. If he didn't KO his opponent by the 6th round...he starts to fall apart. When Mike got discouraged...he wasn't the same fighter...Joe Louis would have discouraged Tyson really quickly!!! So would lots of great Heavyweight champions of the past....Tyson had a bit of the "Dog" in him...just like Liston did...

 

Not at all. I'm a big fan of him, then and now.

 

Didn't George and Larry prove the whole "fighters from an earlier era weren't actually that good" thing wrong?

 

No, cause George and Larry were not from the early 1900s, but from the 70s and 80s. They are modern boxers.

 

Same basic idea though. It goes against an argument that the skill level in the sport advances over time. They showed yeah, not so much.

 

6'5" 230 lb skilled, mobile heavyweights were around at the time. Tyson fought a few of them. Better than the slow of foot Primo Carnera's and Abe Simon's of the Joe Louis era.

Accept it. Let it sink in. Your feelings get trumped by the truth every time.

 

A few means two. I accepted it and my feeling didn't get hurt at all.

 

Louis would be a bum in the 90s? He doesn't look too bad compared to Michael Moorer, Old Foreman, Oliver McCall and Bruce Seldon. Those guys are were heavyweight champion at some point in the 90s.

Anyway Tyson matches up well with Louis based on styles. His speed coming in along with his elusivnes. He would probably have Joe back on his heels taking away leverage. The Brown Bomber would always be a threat to end the fight if he nails Tyson perfect. That could happen but I would wager on Tyson.

 

A few means 3. A couple means 2.

 

So he actually faced as many such fighters as Louis, thanks for contribution.

 

Tyson fought far bigger fighters than Louis has and far more of them. Sleep on that.

 

We're not talking about bigger, we're talking about 6'5 and 230 lbs - remember that

 

Why do you mention fighters Tyson never faced? Why do you mention fighters who were not mobile? Carnera was much more mobile than Smith or Cooney for example.

 

Louis would wreck Liston