This content is protected 1. Given the painfully slow pace of their first bout, it was pleasing to see Pastor establish a much faster pace from the very beginning. He landed solidly, and quickly too. Louis was surprised at first, but not hurt, and he was soon responding in kind. A couple of short exchanges followed, and as soon as Louis was far away, he set the jab to work. That was Pastor's first mistake. Louis was feinting with the right, then threw the left, and scored with the right, and Pastor began an unsteady retreat to the ropes. What happened next I watched very closely, on .25 to be exact. Louis lunges in with a right hand and Pastor weaves out of it and ties Louis up as he straightens up. Louis throws a good right hook inside, and a useless left hook on the back of the neck, but Pastor was already falling to the left side of the screen from the right. He straightens back up on the ropes, Louis prepares a right, but Pastor ducks, and Louis withdraws the right hand. With outstretched arms Pastor tries to clinch, but Louis goes over the top of Pastor's left arm with an awesome right hook and Pastor falls to his knees. He beats the count and Joe floors him with the first punch he throws: a right hand. Pastor beats the count a second time only to be knocked off balance with a light right hand and then dropped with a much harder one. Pastor wisely waited this time and got up. He spent the rest of the round in retreat and heard the bell. I love it how some of these guys came out and surprised Louis, taking the fight to him, and then Louis could just turn things his way in an instant and have the guy all of the floor with tons of knockdowns. Brilliant. Louis. 2. A booming right hand put Pastor down for the fourth time. Louis. 3-7. All were fairly tame rounds with Louis doing just enough to snatch each one. 8-10. Pastor staged a good rally. He had Louis on the ropes in the 8th, landing a good flurry. All three for Pastor. 11. The classic Louis left-right put Pastor down for the fifth and final time. Score at the time of the stoppage: 7-3 for Louis. Verdict: A fairly good fight. Action occurred seldom, but it was the surprises that kept it interesting. Pastor unexpectedly came out and surprised Louis, outpunching him for a brief time before Louis turned the tables and put him down three times, and once more in the 2nd. The fight was slow afterwards and Louis won with the jab, but then Pastor shocked us again by sweeping rounds 8-10. Louis put all the surprises to an end in the 11th with a left-right combination. I can see why people enjoyed it. Watch it.
This fight was scheduled for 20 rounds and Louis looked to be pacing himself after Pastor survived the knockdowns in the first two rounds. It was not likely that Pastor could outlast Louis as he had to keep moving while Louis was fighting very efficiently with a minimum of wasted movement. I think Louis could easily have gone the full twenty. Pastor had a strong record, but in the two fights I have seen him in, both against Louis, he seems a limited fighter with not much offensive kick. An entertaining fight to view.
Bob Pastor was a very underrated contender. Beat a lot of quality opponents over his career. He did well in both of these fights for facing a prime Joe Louis
Louis looked like he wanted to go home early. He nailed Pastor with crosses which decked him in the first and the second. The KD in the second is another one of the KDs that you look at and think how the **** did you get up? This might be the first time I've seen Louis let someone he had hurt go. Louis seemed to be a bit more complacent in the middle rounds than I was expecting. He was edging forward, looking for that cross. Not jabbing. Pastor was moving - running even - and was landing sparingly when he threw. Louis showed good defence though, and excellent timing on the rare occasions when Pastor stepped forward to look for something. This fight had a different feel to it than the Conn fight. This one was like Arguello vs Castillo, where you could feel Louis was gonna put him away in time. Whereas vs Conn, he felt genuinely in danger of losing. The eleventh was vintage Louis. As soon as he had Pastor hurt again, he let loose a three-punch combo which drove Pastor the only way he could go. Louis intercepted with a slight shuffle, a quick readjustment and a brutal cross. Good performance.
