Was Joe Louis faster P4P than Roy Jones?

Someone on this forum thinks so, and thinks I'm the ignorant nuthugger of modern day fighters because I don't agree. I think he's quite possibly demented honestly. What do you think?

 

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So you're saying he had faster hands in other words. His punches traveled faster is what you're saying?

 

What do you mean by distance of a serious punch? You seem to be basing it on the fact that Louis threw shorter, more compact punches, therefore it's close as to the destination time between the two, because Jones a lot of time threw punches from the outside. I'm not talking about that, I'm talking pure speed, pure hand and body speed. Jones would be out of punching range and jump in so quick with a straight shot from a distance that nobody would see it coming. That's speed. Louis had speed of hand, but your argument is based on how quickly the punch gets to the destination, and your argument for Louis is based on the fact that he threw shorter punches, which would obviously get there quicker(though still, a blink of an eye is a blink of an eye, so he's not really even faster in that sense, and then there's the fact that Jones could throw 5 short punches in a row in the span of about a second). I'm talking pure speed though, quickness, that is what this thread is about.

 

I now understand your argument on this, but either way, Louis's punches, even though shorter, were easily avoidable by many fighters. Jones's longer distance punches were less avoidable, so even though I understand where you're coming from and it seems reasonable, it's still not neccessarily true. Louis was much more avoidable than Jones, so I don't believe he was a faster puncher in functional terms either, not by a good ways.