How hard did Max Baer hit

He is top echelon imo.

 

In the top 25.

 

Don't think Foreman have any of that. With him it was about the power.

 

It was alright. He benefitted from smaller gloves and facing smaller opponents than he would have done today. He was pretty slow and sloppy, and not especially large, though he did have long limbs and tended to swing for the fences when he could. Kind of like an old school Deontay Wilder.

I wouldn't say he cracks any HW top ten lists. Cruiserweight maybe, but even then he'd be up against some stiff competition.

 

If he did it was overshadowed by the power especially young Foreman

 

I think that Schmeling would almost certainly last longer then three rounds against Foreman.

 

Max Baer was 6'2-1/2", 210 lb range, with 81 inch reach. Didn't have that much finesse, but he was involved directly, or indirectly in the death of 2 fighters.

 

Would those deaths have happened today though with the refs jumping in and stopping fights at a drop of a hat?

 

Campbell might well have been saved.

He took a terrible beating on the ropes.

 

He was a big enough puncher when motivated .. this clip of him getting seriously pissed and icing King Levinski, who had never been stopped before this, shows power to me ..

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There are at least three common opponents/sparring partners who said that he hit harder than Joe Louis.

 

We should place him at North by Northwest and see if he is the KO champ.

A great man (and a very stout puncher himself) once said of the talk of punching power in boxing, "it's all a dick measuring contest"... But apparently that is all that gets clicks on this board.

Milton Berle for the win.