Joe Louis in today's heavyweight picture

Fairly good chance? The heavyweights today are awful including that big joke called Wlad. The guy has a glass jaw and against someone as hard a hitter as Louis is coupled with his deadly accuracy, it'd be a mid fight KTFO!

 

He would fit much better into the Cruiserweight picture. The bigger sized heavyweights of his era weren't very good boxers.

 

Niether are today's heavyweights. I see him beating them all

 

Louis would be unified champ, Wlad dont have the mental strength to stand up to a superior fighter like Louis, anytime Wlad has to deal with any adversity, he panics and falls to the canvas, and 9 times out of 10 it ends up resulting in him being knocked out. If guys like Sam Peter could make him go life and death, what do you think a 10 times more skilled and accurate puncher like Louis would do to him? If Louis could get on the inside, where Wlad is just a 6'7 245 pound punching bag, the fight will be one punch a way from being over, all Louis needs is 6 inches of seperation, with Wlad's glass chin, the fight ends early..

 

Joe Louis would be champion today. I think the size issue that comes up allot when you talk about past champions and todays bigger guys is not as important as everyone thinks. it depends on weither the bigger man can make it an advantage. Dempsey, Marciano, and Louis, all liked the bigger guys. Plus many of todays guys to be honest are just plain fat. Not all of them but many are 20-30lbs over wgt. Not out of shape but just carrying excess fat.

 

It is pointless discussing boxers from the past with most of you guys. They have been plated with gold, and can do no wrong. Very unreal expectations and exaggerations. Imagine today's best heavyweight, Wladimir Klitschko fighting against the "bum of the month" club. Have you actually sat back and seen most of the guys that Joe Louis was beating on? Let alone the fact that Joe Louis was pretty frail by today's standards. Today's cruiserweights enter the ring heavier than Joe Louis did during his prime. In reality, Joe Louis is about the size of your average Light Heavyeight today. They just cut all that water weight, and don't enter the ring at their natural weight like he did.

Let alone the FACTS of the matter. Joe Louis hardly moved his feet. His head barely ever moved, and his hands were almost always held low. You combine those faults with the fact that he has been knocked out, was knocked down on plenty of occasions by small guys, and his fighting style is AWFUL for fighitng a much bigger guy like he would be facing today. Let's put another myth to rest as well.. Joe Louis' hands were NOT THAT FAST. The man did not have extremely fast hands, especially considering how small he was.

 

I agree with very little of your post, Louis did have very accurate and fast hands. As far as your statement about the "Bum of the month club", dont you think Purrity would make that list? Louis fought 60 years ago, with the improvements in nutrition, weight training, and sadly enough, HGH, Louis would be able to fight at 230-235, no problem, considering he was 6'1- 6'1 and half, which is pretty close to both Brewster and Peter, who are both 6'0 and half- 6'1, both of whom gave Wlad tons of trouble, and there not even close to as talented as Louis was.

 

Ray Austin, A shot Lamon Brewster, Barney Rubble,Tony Thompson (potentially of course).....looks like he's on his way to starting one.

 

Wlad fought about 24 times in his first two years.

 

Wlad fights maybe 3 fights a year if he's lucky, in 06, from my memory, he fought Bryd in April, and Brock in November, that's only 2 fights that year. In 07 he fought Austin in Jan or Feb, Brewster in July, thats 2 that year as well, he's far from an active Heavyweight IMO. If Wlad fought 10 times a year, I would lay a thousand down, that he loses at least once, even if they are against 2nd tier Heavyweights.