Joe Louis vs Usyk championship opposition

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  1. GlaukosTheHammer

    GlaukosTheHammer Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I'm not so sold on the idea Louis struggles with Joshua, Fury, or Daniel. I just think Joe Louis's number one asset is efficiency and with that alone he's going to out tank any gassable opponent. We never got to see Joe set paces for 12 against world greats, but we did see him pace, grow, get old, and continue to pace and time kids. People forget JL wasn't on a losing streak when Rocco retired him. Even that version of Louis was efficient AF. What I mean to say here is I do think the Marciano era version of Louis is still a threat for the more gassable big boys.

    Sidebar on gassability, sometimes some schmo's will claim big men can have the same stamina as smaller men. The short answer to that is sometimes some schmo's believe child-sized men possess the same muscular power as huge giants too.

    But I do think Hunter, Gassiev, and Briedis give him a hell of a fight. Usyk himself, imo, does better against Joe at CW than HW Usyk does. Those paces, I dunno. I don't know that the best, most efficient, version of Joe can pace 12 like Usyk does. Hunter's super underrated because he's been a lazy jabroni for ... bro I forget the last time I seen Hunter look like Hunter tbh. But CW Hunter was bad son. Watch that fight if you haven't. That's maybe the best performance out of Champ. Usyk does him in, in like 7 so I get you, no big deal, but watch how Usyk does it then come tell me you know, like you're absolutely certain, Joe beats Usyk.

    Not saying he does or doesn't. I'm saying I dunno, but, I'm pretty sure that's about 50-50 and while I favor Joe in any of Usyk's or Usyk in any of Joe's I don't think they struggle with the same men. Because Usyk kills with pace but he is not efficient at all. He's super wasteful, purposefully and he seems to have the tank to do it but point is styles. Joe doesn't waste energy.

    Maybe because of the 15 vs 12 deal. Maybe just natural gifts, I dunno. I know none of the big boys even tried to keep pace with Usyk and still got tired out. With Joe Louis, he's little more knock you the **** out if you can't keep up kinda style of guy. I think Fury, Danny, and Joshy get the KO and TKO treatment while Hunter, Gassiev, and Marius either make it to the judges or near it
     
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  2. janitor

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    Then he has an excellent chance of making it a clean sweep.

    Notice I only said an excellent chance.
     
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