Joe Louis 1930's vs Sam Peter today.

You refer to the 1930's as if they were 18th Century England. Joe Louis would have destroyed the "modern trained and conditioned" Peter in four or five rounds ...

 

Louis style isn't that dated. He may not have the modern training techniques and condition, but his natural speed and amazing power, and offensive composite punching skills and solid chin and under-rated defence mean he would knock Peter out within 6.

 

Peter is made for Joe.

 

I thought all that you mentioned there was always very obvious :huh

 

Many would argue tho and he's looking for opinions both ways. From the 30's forward i agree with him.

 

Modern training?
What signs were there that Peter had done any training at all?

Modern diet?
From the look of ol' Sams' body I'll say that Two-ton Tonys' diet probably was more modern!

If Peters gameplan was to stay just inside Vitalis range so he could catch his jab with his face and then miss with his hook in order to allow Vitali to land his right he made a perfect job of it.

Louis would certainly have beaten Peter, as would Ali, Holmes, Foreman and , Liston to name a few of yesteryears champs.

You can't compare an individual sport with teamsports like football, baseball, basket or soccer. Any team is likely touses dozens of players during a season. Let's say that 95% of the players are like 5% better then the players of 20 years ago. If you add all the players together that will mean a considerable improvement for a team, yet there might still just have been that special individual of the past who iwas as good or better than the best of today.

Louis Ali(60's version) and Holmes were that kind of special talents, standouts in comparison to their contemporaries in a way that no current heavy is close to being. And I can´t see any evolution in training, diet etc. to make up for that gap in talent( or in some cases determination for that matter)

 

Louis had slow feet, low guard, and was just so-so on defense. Films or news reads will show us this. Louis also wasn't 6'8", with long arms.

Peter has no problem out boxing or out slugging fighters who can't run away from him such as Toney, or Maskaev, or fighters who like to stand and trade.

Peter could land on Louis. Of course I think Louis would land more on Peter. IMO, Peter's got the better chin. Louis has the better speed/skills.

Give the nod to Louis, but the fight is dangerous for him. It could be a Galento like fight for Louis, where he goes down and comes close to disaster.

 

If Peter tried to brawl with Louis then this fight will look like Louis vs Max Baer. Joe would destroy Peter in a few rounds with Samuel's chin helping him get past three but then he'll get stopped in the fifth or sixth round. Peter is not a dangerous fight for Louis he simply has a punchers chance and since Louis was very hard to finish it ain't happening.

 

Except an old fat 38yo Toney deserved the decision in their first fight

 

Louis KO6 - Louis's fast compact punches land at will and Peter slow wide punches are easy for him to anticipate and counter

 

ditto:good

 

:rofl

My thoughts exactly!