Max Baer in top 20 most powerful HWs ever?

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  1. Unforgiven

    Unforgiven VIP Member banned Full Member

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    Max Baer had great power and a great chin.

    But Joe Louis wasn't the ONLY man to knock him down. Lou Nova knocked him down too, it's on youtube. Nova stopped him in two fights.
     
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  2. Russell

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    Power wise, yes. Not chin wise.
     
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    Not the only man to knock him, the only man to put him down for the COUNT. He was not counted out in EITHER of the Lou Nova fights. 84 fights, stopped for the count only once. I'd say that's a top ten HW chin, minimum.
     
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    The book Cinderella Man had a lot kinder view or Baer than the film.

    The book painted him as some have here.

    Kind, goofy, unmotivated, saddened by the death(s) he caused, but all in all not a bad person.

    FF
     
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