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Kalan wrote:That reminds me... Joshua put a much higher percentage of his victims to sleep than Louis did. 100% vs 75%.

There was a general lack of national and international competition in Louis's day. Less than a year into his car he slaughtered Primo Carnera. 14 months into his career he easily punched holes in wild swinging recent World Champion Max Baer. Less then 2 years into his career Louis was knocked out by an aging Max Schmeling -- demonstrating that Louis was seriously flawed, dropping his left hand and inviting right hand counters.

Joshua has no such vulnerabilities. So while Louis was a great Heavyweight for his day, the term "Bum of the month club" was invented to describe the caliber of opponent he fought. You can't point to a single Heavyweight (Conn was a Light Heavyweight) Louis fought in his prime who was a great boxer-puncher the caliber of a Joshua, Klitschko, Ortiz etc... Conn was not a puncher or he would have gotten Louis out.

Whatever dude

Whatever doesn't match the mythology is whatever right?

In its way the purblind manlove for Joshua before hes fought any half -decent opponents, and the furious masturbation over a 100% ko record, is just as oddball as the baseless assertions of a basketball players boxing greatness. Except, at least Joshua has actually had a fight, I guess it

LOOK!!! ... I don't have any manlove for anybody... I do like Boxing... I do like seeing high level Boxing matches... I HATE watching mismatches that are constantly fed to us -- such as CanYellow-Khan... The 4 top fighters in a division should be fighting each other -- not EACH fighting super easy challengers.. Chamberlain would have slaughtered Ali, but was denied the chance.. Too Tall Jones was walled off from appropriate opponents.. Gennady Golovkin has been walled off from a Lineal Middleweight Title Fight for 6 years... Leo Santa Cruz was protected from Lomachenko and now is being protected from Gary Russell... Floyd's farewell fight was Andre Berto when World Welterweight Title Unification Fights with Kell Brook or Keith Thurman were more appropriate fights... Kovalev has been denied a Lineal Title Fight versus Chickenson for years.

These are the things about Professional Boxing that always bugged me... It's not a merit based sport -- it's a who is the best connected sport.

Kalan wrote:LOOK!!! ... I don't have any manlove for anybody...

Keep telling yourself that

I love Boxing. You love boxers of the male variety. That's not for me.

Kalan wrote:I love Boxing. You love boxers of the male variety. That's not for me.

Classic projection

You're off topic again... This thread isn't about sex... Could Louis deal with the speed, power, and defense of Joshua??? ... NO

Louis only beat Conn because he was 25 pounds bigger and stronger. I don't see him handling Joshua's right counter... AJ gets Fury out too... 8 rounds.