[GIF] Max Baer showing skill and reflexes with a triple jab, followed by a sharp combo, and a slip

It’s either a genius satirical stab at Kevin. Or it’s a real out of the box opinion.

As in typical Seamus fashion, nobody knows!

 

I only care about past fighters?

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Y’all gonna let these passion killers get to you?

They don’t even care about you or the boxers. They’ll put someone in their top 10 and then slander the **** outta them. **** that. Stand up for yourselves. Stand up for your passion.

For anyone who loves boxing and wants to see fighters get the appreciation they deserve, you got Reznick in your corner.

For those who succumb to peer pressure and add to the toxicity. I don’t **** with you.

 

When I said you were proving my point, I was referring to the below:

It's really something else. It's like the equivalent of trying to have an open-minded discourse with a fundamentalist religious zealot who considers certain types of analyses and inquiries blasphemous and damnable.

 

And again, like I’ve said for the hundredth time time, there is nothing wrong with critiquing. It’s the manner in which people critique, which is unbalanced, exaggerated, and fueled by overzealous negativity.

Disguising your hate for boxers with a genuine intellectual curiosity is deceptive and misleading.

 

Who ever said that you only care about past fighters??

You're getting weird again. Lighten up, bud!

 

Don't you get it?

If you produce a hundred films of a fighter not doing something, and I produce one film where they did do it, then it's case closed that they had this capability.

You are trying to use the footage to prove a negative.

 

Louis was very clear in saying that Blackburn was the brain's behind his style.

He couldn't give the guy enough credit for developing him.

He once said "People are kind enough to say that I am the greatest puncher in history, and if they are right it is because of what my trainer Jack Blackburn taught me."

 

This thread reminds me of the Bowe & Carnera comparison.
Any coincidence that we have the same sides shaping up?

 

In a perfect world, just a hypothetical
It is more what I expect of myself not Baer
Baer was haha, just a goofy bear of a guy, so I'd not actually expect a counter punch from him
A lot of natural strength and tall

I like watching his fights, but more with a beer in my hand than a notebook
All props to him though, he was a champion, and if you can pick up anything from him, do so

 

Was that supposed to be blinding skill? A bit similar to Ali I guess. Slower, less explosive and less precise, but with the same fundamental flaws (not bringing the hands back to the guard when punching and leaning back from a punch with chin exposed).

 

But that doesn't mean that today's fighters are impeccable in these regards. Far from it:

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What happened to Naz himself when he stepped up in class? Or the quote perhaps weren't from Prince Naz? My bad in that case.

 

Wilder is a classic example of a fighter doing a number of things poorly but a few things very well. So far, against almost only unranked opposition, it has worked for him, with a scare in his last fight, but you wonder if it will continue to do that if he faces top 5 competition (has he faced any top 5 ranked fighter yet? One?) year in and year out like the ATGs did.

Tbf the same skepticism was leveled against a certain Clay once upon a time, so you never know.

 

Wasn't adressed at me. But I find this a bit ironic. I think you should look at your own level of curiosity before getting angry at what you perceive as other's lack thereof.

Why do people who laud the skill of Louis view Baer as lacking in skills? It can't logically be because of bias against that era.

Likewise, that many like the skills of Young but feel Foreman's skill set was lacking can't be because a bias against the 70's.

So can it be that they actually are on to something? If you are intellectually curious you should ask yourself that question in earnest.

 

My take on Wilder is that he probably could beat anyone in the history of boxing on a given night, but I have a hard time seeing him putting together a long reign against top contenders.