Tony Galento knocks down Joe Louis [1080p]

I think I have the basics of boxing down and I've been watching films of it since the middle 1960's including this fight. Tua is light years above Galento for both speed and technique ,that is my honest opinion. The example you have provided could be used to show how crude and unrefined Galento was,imo.Sorry I have to be truthful here .

 

Galento is showing two types of hooks during his bout with Louis.

One is the old "low to high" hook old timers discussed in reference to short crouching fighters in the ring with taller opponents. The idea is to keep the punch very low and very wide outside of the peripheral vision of their opponent. Louis never saw these punches coming.

The second type is a true left hook which is the punch he knocked Louis down with.

The strategy here is to land the wide hook and once your opponent starts looking for it then shorten it up where they are now open.

Tua's left hook is in reality a left swing. Certainly a hard blow but not thrown as a traditional left hook. A traditional left hook is a very short, slashing blow that travels within the plane of ones shoulders. The best hwt left hook you find with Dempsey. His ko of Sharkey and his near ko of Tunney are examples of perfectly thrown left hooks.

 

Louis really carried his left low, and to help the other guy out, stuck his face forward too often.

Galento could hit, but he's really not a skilled man. He would not be in the top ten, not even today. He pushed Louis around too easily as well.

While there's not doubt Louis had a fine array of punches, he'd be in a lot of trouble vs more skilled fighters, who can also hit...unless he lands his bombs first.

 

Carrying your left low does not place you in jeopardy from the left hook.
Galento had 33 lbs on Louis.

 

No hwt ever to live was "more skilled" than Joe Louis.

 

I've seen heavyweights with better skills.

 

Lack of skills is lack of skills, and not some super secret Shaolin monks punching technique only a couple of people in the world can recognize. Plenty of fighters had gone the distance with Galento, without being hurt much or at all by his punches. And as had been mentioned before, Dempsey went out of the ring in utter disgust after trying and failing to teach Galento how to throw a hook properly, he couldn't tolerate any more wild, aimless swings Galento continued to throw despite his tutoring.

 

Upset are we? I've given you my honest opinion, in a courteous manner, whether you accept it is up to you, it isn't compulsory.TBH I couldn't give a good f*ck either way.
I don't lie, nether do I pretend to be an expert on boxing,I have many times said I am just a fan,but since you're getting personal , from your posts , general observations ,and the examples you provide ,I'd say you know next to nothing
about the technical aspects of the game.again just my personal ,honest opinion.

 

If Louis could get knocked down with a left hook from that fat slob, then imagine what Joe Frazier's hooks would have done to Louis. It would have been a slaughter within 3 or 4 rounds.

 

Here's a couple of examples of technically perfectly delivered left hooks.imho

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X9leFdOY_k[/url].

And at 05

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULL-4LBBrDc[/url]

 

Just one word - consistency. When you are able to repeat something many times when you need it, that's technique/skill. When you just have a target and throw punches at it without thinking, that might work once or twice out of a hundred attempts, but that doesn't mean you have that particular punching technique/skill. You are just doing the best you know how.

There may exist the punching technique you have in your mind, but trying to pretend Galento has learned it and shows it on film, is silly, to say it mildly. I repeat, he was unable to learn how to throw even basic short left hook when Dempsey tried to tutor him. He continued to "mow hay" with wild swings.