Jersey Joe Walcott vs Tua

Ray and Gomez have several late round KOs on record, some are rather quality wins. Gomez knocked out Flynn in round 10 in a cone behind win for instance.

Walcott always clowned, Louis was the only one that made him pay.

 

I can’t imagine Tua fighting too many ranked fighters, with some boxing ability, and getting away with it!

 

That's what I've always read about Walcott but the more that I watch I don't see much matador-like about him, to be honest.

 

You don't have to imagine. Chris Byrd did it on film. Wooden was cute with him too.

Tua was not terribly difficult to out box.

And it's not like Walcott was incapable of staying focused, the Louis fights are the only ones on film where he was clearly show boating.

A lot this so called clowning was purposeful feints to confuse his opponents.

 

How would you describe his strategy then?

As a secondary question, why was he so successful?

 

He was a switch hitter who fought off the back foot and pot shotted.

Matador is a fitting ****ogy.

 

He fought flat-footed and coming forward plenty.

 

Eh, Byrd had success to the body but he also confused Tua with feints and movement, and won many rounds at range.

What are you calling clowning exactly, Walcott never offered his chin. He used feints and movements to confuse his opponents, same as Byrd.

 

Can you cite efficient examples of this?

That doesn't describe Jersey Joe at all.

 

You seem to be trying to make Walcott into Max Baer here!

In reality he had a record of success, in the same physical universe, that Tua had a record of failure in!

 

Most recent example I saw was against ten Hoff (who some people here were discussing as a "big man"). But I also noticed him doing it against Ezzard Charles and in spots against Marciano.

I probably know less than any of you about Walcott, so I understand that I might be missing something but I think that his mobility and trickery seem overstated a bit on this forum. His strategy seems pretty straight forward to me: Against much slower fighters, he steps back and tries to linger just enough to tempt them to lead with something that he can counterpunch them. He did so with a slugger's style that left him kind of exposed in some spots too.