Rate Joe Louis' defense

I'm not understanding the relevance of Joe dodging some of Max's jabs, as if that was something significant. By no means was Max or Buddy some outstanding technician or jabbing prodigy. They were more crude than technical. So what does Joe dodging such a jab prove or disprove?

 

"Outstanding" defense gave me a chuckle

 

Given the way that Louis fought, he actually got hit cleanly fairly infrequently.

If you don't give him some credit for his defense, then his chin must have been a lot better than given credit for.

 

Even the best of a weak era, will ruthlessly expose the flaws in a fighters defense.

 

Yes, but you also have to look at what they didn't do.

Its not like the best boxers teed off on him, until he caught up with them.

 

If Louis got hit so damn often according to the lot of you, his chin couldn't have been the glass you make it out to be.

 

Never knew that about bear It's a shame they didn't do a book or a movie on his career

 

One thing that must be known Joe Louis was that he was very deceptive. He could play with range and could feint vulnerability to lure his opponent in. Guys wouldn't realize they were trapped until it was too late.

 

If you go after a fighter too hard on one thing, you can end up having to give them back something else.

That is the paradox here.

Louis's most vehement critics say things like "his chin was glass, and he was easy to hit".

OK so why wasn't he getting knocked out left right and center?

 

LOL... This is so rich it's palpable

 

He did get hit, and all the KD he suffered attest to that very thing. He recuperative abilities were special, but that doesn't mean his defense or chin was special.

 

31 fights against ranked opposition, and not stopped over a fifteen year period.

That is a lot to chalk up to recuperative abilities!