Jack Sharkey, a one armed average hitting fighter knocked out Loughran with 1 punch. Foster's power at 175lb was absolutely deadly, he is one of the hardest hitters in history.
That's far from his only chance, because in a battle of the jabs would be right in there with Loughran whose main weapon and the only weapon really was his left hand. At 6'3, near 80 inch reach he has the physical advantages and his jab was praised by many old timers who watched him fight. Dempsey called it the best jab he saw since Joe Louis's. Loughran said that Foster probably wasn't any worse than the fighters of his era, but that they had it tougher back then.
I don't think that Sharkey was a one armed average hitter, or that Foster hit harder than him. Either way, that is not the point. Loughran was stopped twice in 169 fights, and both times it was done by elite heavyweights. The fact that they stopped him does not mean that they, let alone Foster, could achieve the feat with any degree of consistency.
A more plausible scenario, but is a fine jab and 80'' reach going to be a puzzle that Loughran can't slove?
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Loughran looks a bit too tricky & slippery. I see him giving Bob a very frustrating time and capturing a decision
Nor do I. That hook he dropped Carnera with in their first match was a bomb, a well tucked peach of a left. (And I believe that may have been the only time Primo was dropped by a legal blow until Max Baer and Louis came along.)
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Sharkey had 15 career knockouts for crying out loud. He didn't demonstrate power on film either. He was not a puncher. He also hurt his right arm early in his career, he was primarily a left handed fighter, which makes it embarrasing loughran was flattened by his right hand. Bob Foster was a monsterous 175lber, he would get to Loughran. Loughran never dealt with a freak like Foster before
All those old timers who kept their hands by their waist would get clobbered by Foster's long left jab and wicked hook
I'd say he demonstrated far great punching ability on film than his record would indicate. He stunned Dempsey and Schmeling, floored Carnera, flattened Loughran & Maloney. He was a terror to light heavyweights, before KO'ing Loughran he had done this to another light heavyweight champion of the era: This content is protected Jack Delaney. "Freaky" as Foster may have been, we also have to admit that he is slower, with more plodding and all around worse footwork than Loughran.
That doesn't matter. He is going to be stick his ATG long left jab in loughran's face all night. Loughran will have no answer. Foster's eventually going to corner Loughran, set a trap and take him out.
I don't know about that. You'd think that in the 169 fights that he had, Loughran has seen a jab or two.
Loughran is one of the best technical fighters of his era, and has demostrated his ability to beat every type of fighter imaginable from middleweight to heavyweight. It is going to take a lot more than a good jab to cause him any puzzlment. Great though he is, Foster is not going to show him anything that he has not been on the receiving end of before. You might as well be making similar statments about how Foster would be too much for Ezzard Charles.