The Brown Panther v The Brown Bomber ?

Rules and glove size?
Either way, Louis sooner or later will find a way to unleash and that would be enough. AS much as I respect Wills He is not elusive enough. Wladimir could done it(due to his size and pace'range controlling ability and of course power) but don't ask me to bet on it because Louis has insane grip(so far ahead of his time). When he lands first punch you will never see an end of it. That's why i fancy his chances against Lewis(even more than against Wlad) because lewis tends to get lazy in the ring and fights half asleep and that is a bad news against Louis. The worst match up possible I see louis in is Foreman. He can take it long enough to put Louis away. Also Vitaly would be a great task. And of course Ali. I also always in between on Louis - Holmes match up and I trully don't know about Tyson(I prefer to not think about it too much because my head hurts ).
That's it. I can't see anyone winning against Him.
Before someone screams Fraizer at me, I just cant see it. Fraizer is to open for Louis style and he doesn't posses a chin he is often credited with.
I predict Louis by ko inside 7-8 rounds.

 

Mid or late round TKO for Louis. Wills will have success in the clinches but Louis would quite simply chop him down over the distance. Unfortunately this is based off reading newspapers rather than analyzing actual fight footage though so it's difficult to say how credible a pick this is, or any pick for that matter when it comes to Harry Wills.

 

Never saw footage of Harry Wills.. But based on legacy and the incredible fights that I've seen of Joe Louis, I have to make him the favorite.. Louis would have been an animal to fight against anyone prior to his era, as well as many who came after..

 

Louis by KO....Brown Bomber was a modern wonder

 

Here you go. Not much, but still more than we have of Greb in competition:

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Before the first knockdown, Harry makes no attempt to elude Uzcudun, he meets the barrel chested Basque Woodchopper head on, and utterly flatfooted to clash at close quarters, not a terrific idea against Louis (or Paulino for that matter), who could be difficult to tie up on the inside. In the little footage we have, Wills attempts one jab, and the rest is Bowe type inside work. At range, Joe's jab can dominate Harry, based upon what bits are shown here. (Louis himself never really lost his jab, even against Marciano. Again, we just don't see Wills jabbing against an opponent he might have been expected to rely on it with, a 5'10" adversary who couldn't fully extend his left.)

 

Thanks for this clip D. Uzcudun was a bull,bigger and stronger than Marciano. That would have been a was,were they have met. As I boy
I was bowling in Freddie Fitzimmons bowling Alley,[old B'klyn Dodger pitcher] and the chef was a fellow Basque of Uzcudun,and close friend. He told our group how STRONG Paolino was growing up. Cheers D.

 

His sister was supposed to also be a competitive wood chopper who weighed 200 pounds.

Anybody who's ever chopped and split firewood knows to what ridiculous degree it can builds up tensile strength and muscular endurance. Free weights can't replicate what wood chopping does for the hands, forearms and other muscle groups. (That includes the exertion involved in forcefully yanking out a blade stuck in the wood it was just buried in rapidly, in order to take the next chop at it. Pounding a truck tire with a sledge hammer does not replicate blade extraction.) Having grown up chopping wood, and competing at it, he probably was stronger than Marciano.

 

I go with the consensus. The footage of a 38 year old Wills is too limited to draw much of a conclusion, but as good as Wills' record is, it is not nearly as good as that of Joe Louis.

I pick Louis by a knockout.

 

There's no way to know exactly how good Wills was, he may have been better than Louis, but he never got his shot. If he got his shot his shot from 1917-1919 and dominated Dempsey, Willard, Tunney, Greb, Old Johnson and ruled for 5years people would perceive him very differently. He might not have been good enough to do this, but he just may have been too. Does he have the style to offset Louis? We just don't know

 

There was a four round exhibition between Joe Louis and Harry Wills in Los Angeles 1947. But I do not know whether a film about it exists.

 

I think that was Young Harry Wills, a heavy of the late forties and early fifties.

Hard to believe old Harry, who had socked quite a bit of cash away, ever wanted to spar seriously with Louis.

 

Not to get into in but Harry Wills was the Brown Panther of New Orleans.

 

They made a boo boo