You are a top modern day heavyweight contender. Who do you go back in time to fight?

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  1. InMemoryofJakeLamotta

    InMemoryofJakeLamotta I have defeated the great Seamus Full Member

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    You are 6'6 250 pounds with a decent chin and a solid world class heavyweight punch and you can go back to 1938 to fight Joe Louis or to 1988 to fight Mike Tyson . Who do you fight?
     
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  2. Ioakeim Tzortzakis

    Ioakeim Tzortzakis Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I go back to 1938, wait 8 years for Louis to age and come back from the war, and then fight him.
     
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  3. SonnyListon>

    SonnyListon> #1 Sonny Liston fan Full Member

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    Definitely Tyson. If you win you go down in history.
     
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  4. InMemoryofJakeLamotta

    InMemoryofJakeLamotta I have defeated the great Seamus Full Member

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    No...you must immediately fight him.
     
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  5. Ioakeim Tzortzakis

    Ioakeim Tzortzakis Well-Known Member Full Member

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    No.
     
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  6. InMemoryofJakeLamotta

    InMemoryofJakeLamotta I have defeated the great Seamus Full Member

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    But you have a big size advantage over Louis
     
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  7. Ioakeim Tzortzakis

    Ioakeim Tzortzakis Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Well, I do have it where it matters ;)
     
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  8. Charles White

    Charles White Chucker Full Member

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    Tyson for sure. Better payday lol.
     
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  9. Totentanz.

    Totentanz. Gator Wrestler Extraordinaire banned Full Member

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    Johansson, then Patterson, become inactive up until the scramble after Ali has his license revoked, and fight through the tournament for the title to beat Ellis, or whoever else stands in my way- Go to unify with Frazier, beat him, and retire as a 2 time undisputed champ exclusively through capitalizing on my opponent's weaknesses.

    I'd probably never accomplish that in all reality, and I'd probably want to fight and win titles legitimately, lol.
     
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  10. McGrain

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    Those are the perfect dimensions to be fighting Tyson, I'll fight him. I couldn't find it but Jim Lampley had a beautiful quote about this in the run up to Tyson-Lewis where talking about Tyson he said that there was this false impression among fans that Tyson had some sort of advantage against larger fighters, that he somehow "chopped them down" but that this just wasn't true. That is a huge size-difference Tyson is trying to swarm there.

    Not that it would be any fun for Louis, but his style is at least blessed with strategic depth. Trying to trick a guy into a certain space is specifically how a smaller puncher should operate against a much bigger man.
     
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  11. Dorrian_Grey

    Dorrian_Grey It came to me in a dream Full Member

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    Slow Joe is my pick. If Galento could KD him and Schmeling could KO him then I reckon A MODERN SUPER-HEAVYWEIGHT WITH ENHANCED TRAINING, CONDITIONING, AND NUTRITION WOULD FLATTEN EVERY FIGHTER FROM THE 30s.
     
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  12. Ney

    Ney Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Definitely Tyson. With the benefit of hindsight we know much more about how to beat him than we do Louis.
     
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  13. InMemoryofJakeLamotta

    InMemoryofJakeLamotta I have defeated the great Seamus Full Member

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    Would you tie him up?
     
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  14. Melankomas

    Melankomas Prime Jeffries would demolish a grizzly in 2 Full Member

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    I’d go back to when Jeffries retired and just beat up all the white manlets, while drawing the colour line to maintain my historic reign
     
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  15. Totentanz.

    Totentanz. Gator Wrestler Extraordinaire banned Full Member

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    I don't think you'd need to be 6'6 to do that.
     
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