Is there any fighters in history under 200 pounds that you believe could beat Lewis, Klitschko etc

Not allowed to be real in these parts.

That said, Sam did KO Wills twice, so while maybe not favored, he had the capability to turn the trick if someone got lazy. And particularly for Joshua, who is as wooden a fighter and a frontrunner as you will find, he should be viewed with danger.

 

I'd give Dempsey and Louis a punchers chance. Especially against chinny HWs like Wlad, Lewis and AJ. Tunney might possibly outpoint a few. Doug Jones and Michael Spinks could likely pull off a win too.

 

No

 

Joe Louis at 199.5 lbs should probably be a favorite over all of them.

Let that sink in!

 

The question should be “would any of the guys on this list even exist as they did physically before 1970”?

quite clearly each of them are a physical product of improved nutrition, training and science and more readily available information (both legal and illegal) that has transformed what was previously achievable in HW boxing.

without these advances you don’t get the changes that allowed these guys to exist.

 

To take a more recent example, if Evander Holyfield had come in a hair under 200lbs in his prime, would he really have lost to all of these guys?

I am inclined to think that he wouldn't.

 

Because spinks, just like i said, was a great technician and it would not be an easy task, especially for guys like Wlad Klitschko or Joshua.

 

I am not making a pick here, but I highly doubt that the Holyfield that fought Lewis, did better than a prime version just under 200 could have done!

 

The skills of modern superheavyweights, is one of the most disingenuous phrases in boxing.

It implies that size is everything, except when the old timer has it on his side, when it suddenly counts for nothing.

The old time superheavyweights were trained by the same men as the lightweights and welterweights of those eras, who are revered as technicians today!

Do you think that their trainers never had the idea of teaching them a few boxing fundamentals?

If all that they needed to make a world beater, was to find a superheavyweight, and teach them some "skills", then that would have been easy enough!

 

with rabbit punches and if he was larger. Dempsey was very dirty boxer from modern criteria.
I do not judge him, he was kid self made from ash unlike post WW2 era stars he had nothing and Dempsey likes me damn a lot.
Dirtyboxer Dempsey if he was larger. If not DQ.