Haha, yeah I sort of knew what the answers would be before I even started this. Any other champs with worse technique than Baer ?
Baer, Foreman was described as the new bigger, stronger, harder hitting Louis by his trainers when he came out
For a guy with such bad technique, that he utterly dominated and destroyed a top class heavyweight like Max Schmeling and a guy who's defended quite a bit as underrated like Primo Carnera, it should make you wonder what Baer would have been like if he wasn't such a prime head-case and devoted himself to his profession.
They were equally bad when BOTH were age 23 to 26............. However, George Foreman improved with age...... Baer was done fighting at age 32 and he never came back except for an exhibition or two..... MR.BILL:yep
I have that on tape...... Love that fight....... BUT! Chuvalo was made to order for Foreman like a pizza from Pizza Hut........ Not a good fight or opponent to judge Foreman's reckless approach........ MR.BILLbbb
I suggest you rewatch the fight. I had the fight dead even going into round 10....Max baer only dominated one round of the fight. This was a very close fight. Also Primo Carnera won more rounds of the first 10 than max baer did, primo completley outboxed baer in the mid rounds
True. I do think though that Baer was simply coasting against Schmeling, thus making it a closer fight on the scorecards than it could have been (until the knockout). He always seemed to be in control of the Schmeling fight but the Carnera fight is a bit of a myth. Baer only won the rounds in which he knocked down Carnera in. Primo was also fighting with an injured ankle.
Worse technique? Baer. I do however think that you are doing both these fighters a disservice if you term them as crude. If they are then it is all relative. You could probably pick out a journeyman who had power on a similar level to this duo. The fact is that power on its own is not worth two buckets of warm spit. These guys got as far as they dit to soime extent because they had ring inteligence and technique in deploying thier power. They esentialy took a basic stlye and refined it and worked with it.
The Schmeling fight is Baers Buster Douglas moment. It is the only fight he took seriously, anywhere cose to his prime, including the Carnera fight!