How Hard did Max Bear Punch?

How hard did Max Bear punch?

I'd say a maximum bear can swat hard enough to decapitate any human!

 

This has never been proven if you ever see the Schaaf second fight,[very doubtful] you will see that Schaaf was dragged back to his corner,and was unconscious for over 3 minutes.

 

It said that Baer never fought the same after the Campbell fight. He feared killing other fighters.

 

He had three bouts in the nearly six months between Baer and Carnera, and won the latter two via sixth round knockout.

In, "Primo Carnera: The Life and Career of the Heavyweight Boxing Champion," by Joseph S. Page, this is discussed at length. In a 2005 interview, Ernie's sister-in-law, Anita Schaaf expressed that while she enjoyed "Cinderella Man," also her disappointment to reporter Alan Tays that Max was implicated in her brother in law's death by Opie's movie, pointing instead to the influenza and meningitis which hospitalized him for four days within the three week period prior to facing Carnera.

The entirety of Chapter Six, "The Death of Ernie Schaaf, 1933," spanning from pages 100 to 109 is readily available on Google Books, informative, and should be read by everyone who believes that Max might have been somehow responsible for the fatality. (If you Google the three words Ernie Schaaf flu, then that Google Books entry will directly appear at the top of the page. Take a few minutes to read those nine quick and easy pages, then get back to me.)

 

Allready read it.

 

No doubt a huge right hand puncher ... hard enough to hurt anyone he could land on ...

 

Max Baer was a great concussive right hand puncher, but Nat Fleischer always had Max Schmeling as the No.1 right hand puncher for his speed and accuracy !
In the Schmeling /Max Baer brawl in 1933, it seemed that Schmeling from the beginning seldom through his vaunted right hand, and when he did, either it was not too hard a punch as the famous right hands that kod JOE LOUIS,or Baer's concrete chin [and Baer had one], just absorbed the punches...Hmmm...

 

Not only that, but I noticed that Baer made liberal use of the cross armed defense, immediately covering up with it after unloading his right, denying Schmeling the opportunity to counter effectively with his own right. He confused Schmeling a bit in that one. This has been cited as one of the German's weakest performances on film, but how much of that was due to Baer's unpredictable, almost crazed mode of execution?

 

I think Schmeling himself described the Baer fight in his autobiography, along the lines of "I was simply outclassed."

 

I was always impressed with the number of flush shots Schmeling took from Baer without going down .. No doubt Baer was a big slugger but to me slightly over rated ... I believe Louis was a bigger puncher ... the way he was able to crush Schmeling, Carnera not to mention Baer shows this to me ..

 

Well, the round by round entirety of Baer-Schmeling is always available for study on MaxBaer.org (viewable in Firefox Mozilla) for anybody interested in watching.

 

:good

It's a good fight.

 

Scarey stuff, and his claiming that he 'held back' is somewhat believable when you consider he had killed previously.

In 2003 RING magazine produced their list of the 100 greatest punchers. Their top 40 read:

1. Joe Louis
2. Sam Langford
3. Jimmy Wilde
4. Archie Moore
5. Sandy Saddler
6. Stanley Ketchell
7. Jack Dempsey
8. Bob Fitzsimmons
9. George Foreman
10. Earnie Shavers
11. Sugar Ray Robinson
12. Ruben Olivares
13. Wilfredo Gomez
14. Rocky Marciano
15. Sonny Liston

This content is protected

17. Bob Foster
18. Thomas Hearns
19. Khaosai Galaxy
20. Alexis Arguello
21. Carlos Zarate

This content is protected

23. Rocky Graziano
24. Matthew Saad Muhammad
25. Julian Jackson
26. Danny Lopez
27. Gerald McClellan
28. Roberto Duran
29. Rodrigo Valdez
30. Felix Trinidad
31. Pipino Cuevas
32. Jim Jefferies

This content is protected

34. Bennie Briscoe
35. Marvin Hagler
36. Edwin Rosario
37. Tommy Ryan
38. John Mugabi
39. Joe Frazier
40. Carlos Monzon

Thing to note here is top 100 greatest punchers, not top 100 hardest or most powerful punchers.

 

All that Baer would need in moving to the top of everybody's all time puncher's list would have been a serious attitude.