Light Heavyweights who moved up to Heavyweight that you'd Favor over Max Schmelling

Terrific video

 

Excellent footage, the guy who made it understands boxing! When Schmeling is being interviewed ,if you read his lips he says,"yes I see something, but I won't tell."
I even liked the music ,what a change from the usual rap that accompanies most boxing clips.

 

I love his one about footwork. Wylie's real good.

 

Id also recommend Schmeling's autobiography that was translated into English. What a great book. I cant praise it enough. The guy was so interesting and so intelligent.

 

I didn't know it was available in English.

 

You know that I rate Louis as highly as anybody, but there was nothing lucky about it.

This is one of the best examples of somebody beating a more talented fighter, by using a brilliant fight plan, in the history of the sport.

 

Amen!

 

That perfectly suited his style and with the right tool to get the job done. Kinda like the sort of brainwork Futch would do. It was good right hand though.

 

That's a great video. Thanks for posting.

 

I think Max would beat Spinks because he was a very good puncher with the right hand. I remember Holmes wobbling Spinks with a glancing right in the second fight, and several other times too.

I think Max would catch him clean and KO him.

 

Fair enough.

I misunderstood you.

I don't necessarily agree, though, that an old Holmes was better than a young Schmeling.

Seriously, one factor which makes a Spinks-Schmeling comparison difficult is that Spinks using modern training methods (and possibly supplements) was able to build himself up to well over 200 lbs. Such methods were not available in Schmeling's era. It seems to me it distorts the size argument. Schmeling fought as a heavyweight from 23 on. I don't think he ever made light-heavyweight after 23. Spinks fought at light-heavy until close to thirty. Had Spinks been fighting in Schmeling's era and been born the same year, he might well have had to give up weight if he was to come into the fight in top shape anytime he fought Schmeling.

That said, he was taller and possibly had a longer reach.

 

Ezzard Charles, Gene Tunney, Archie Moore, and Tommy Loughran. They have a tough time doing it though. Schmeling was tough.

 

Spinks, only Spinks.

 

Probably Harold Johnson. I'd like his chances vs Schmeling.