Max Baer is a Boxing God - Worhsip Him!!

Easily top five in HW chins and top five in punching power too. IF Max took boxing seriously he would have been a top ten ATG, no doubt. Dempsey thought so - but Baer's laicisdaisical training habits, love of the nightlife and the ladies frustrated Jack no end.

Baer said it all when he said he had "a million dollar body and a ten cent brain." Still, even with that ten cent brain he was able to do pretty well on ABILITY ALONE.

Baer is - obviously - my favorite Old Time HW. ANd part of it is his "madcap" personaility. BUt what if Baer had, say George Foreman or Sonny Liston's brain. Would he have ruled the 30s and given Joe Louis a serious run for his money??

 

Baer was only like a quarter Jewish, and was raised as a Jew. The Star of David thing on his trunks was his maanger's idea - ehtnic marketing was REAL big in boxing in the thirties.

 

The title was something of a joke, kind of in the Baer spirit. But I really do believe that Baer, along with Riddick Bowe, is probably the biggest under-achiever among HW champs. If he had applied himself, they would be talking about the Louis/Baer era in the 30s. There is little doubt in my mind that Baer would have been Louis's main rival and they probably would've had a hell of a trilogy!!!

But like others have said, if that were the case, Max wouldn't be Max - and as a big Baer fan, I know that's one of the things I like about him. He was unique. Just didn't have the mentality for boxing though.