dempseyfire wrote:Ali and Farr fought completly differently, since that's what you're referring to
Interesting. All I said, that I can see, is that he moved and used a jab. In that limited sense you can compare him to any number of fighters, as I don't believe that Farr and Ali were the only ones to ever employ that strategy. Either way, it is true that Farr for much of the fight moves away from Louis and uses a jab and does alright. Louis ate jabs throughout the fight, and by not standing in front of Louis Farr didn't take too many of Joe's fancy combinations, other than on maybe a couple of occasions where Farr gets too close to Louis. Funny how that works, that an opponent who actually moved away from Louis for most of the fight was able to get through the match without taking quite as many combinations, as opposed to most of Louis' inept opponents who plodded right into them. Perhaps other mobile fighters with a bit more speed might have also made it difficult for Louis to land combinations at will...
Every so often throughout the fight he also caught Louis with some right hands, as many of Louis' better opponents were able to. For all the praise of Louis' technique, he did not defend well against the right hand, as Schmeling was able to demonstrate, and this showed up every now and then when he actually stepped in with more capable fighters than he was used to facing. Farr even manages to wobble Louis' legs a couple of times, but of course he wasn't the first or last to do that to Joe.
But, though its true that Louis put him through a "meat grinder" in the sense that he cut up Farr's face, that says nothing of the fact that it was indeed a fairly competitive fight until maybe some of the later rounds. As for the decision, based on what the videos show Louis deserved it, surely. But what david said wasn't entirely correct, we didn't see the complete fight, only select portions of each round. Which means, going by the rationale of many on this forum, that Louis deserves no credit for the win since we cannot say definitively that he deserved the decision since we have not seen the full match. That, after all, is the logic that many seem to use for the first Walcott fight, even though people at the time were almost unanimous that Louis should have lost. If the idea is that Louis might have won the parts of the first Walcott fight that we don't get to see today on film, then maybe, going by that logic, Farr might have won all the parts of the fight that these videos left out. Unlikely, but that seems to be what the logic is.
As for your comment, I've seen Louis fans compare Louis to everyone from Jimmy Young to Henry Cooper, so go roll your eyes at them.
