Where do you rank Joe Louis punching power in history?

I don't. I deny their accuracy as proven by the films and I think if they exist at all they are as sincere as so many other conflicting claims often made. I look forward to your verification since you made the statement definitively ...

 

I will start with the Sheppard article

http://www.phillyboxinghistory.com/.../20100201_sheppard_hatchetman_alkazoff_01.htm

 

...among 6'2" men, top percentile.

 

Top 10 at the very least. Very powerful for his size and he never wasted a punch

 

Actually that article brought back memories ... remember reading it somewhere .. I respect you took the time to find it but saying he sparred with Louis " for a second" , not to mention when they starred or under what circumstances to me does not give serious basis for supporting so definitive statement opposed to actual ring footage on common opponents and the results ...

Here's with your eyes ... Baer hits an exhausted Schmeling with a dozen flush shots before he falls (20:40)

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He pounded a semi-shot Galento and couldn't drop him ..

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