Louis Galento the interview

I haven't seen much of Galento. How good do you guys think he would he have been if he'd have trained properly and lived a clean life?

 

Another pretty impressive win was over my countryman DeKuh, a very big HW, he KO´d him brutally with a monster hook...


If he would have taken his training seriously, he could have been something special...

 

Thanks for that janitor,much appreciated. What a character he was.

 

Thanks McGrain interesting opinion. I understand maybe if he wasn't as big it would have taken something away from his unorthodox lumbering style. Either way he sounds like a real character. I was thinking of getting the book: 'Two Ton' have you read it?

 

I personally feel that a fighter is always better when he's well trained and in top shape. The issue with Galento, however is that his fighting style went hand in hand with a streetfighter/bar Brawler's type strategy. I don't know how he'd do with a more orthadox type technique.

 

Lol at the toupe he has on!

 

Sometimes, an intense training regimen can grind down a body, and sap it of energy. As heavy as Two-Ton was, this could have been structurally detrimental. As short as Galento was, his bulk seemed to be essential to his ability to muster tremendous force behind his hook.

 

Don Dunpry had nothing on Bill Corum imo.

 

Agreed. Galento could lose a few pounds, but he's simply a big man and if you make him slim, he'll be a puncher without punch.

He's a bit like Tua. Those kind of fighters are just built like that and it optimizes their style. They'll never be on their toe's doing a shuffle.


On top of that, conditioning was not really the reason Louis beat him to a bloody mess. That was a great fight though, one of my favorites in fact.

 

True it only lasted 4 rounds. Toney could go ten rounds, He had underrated stimia.