+- THE SOCIAL UNDERGROUND COMMUNITY (https://www.socialunderground.com/forums)
+-- Forum: Boxing (/forumdisplay.php?fid=3)
+--- Forum: Boxing Unfiltered (/forumdisplay.php?fid=5)
+--- Thread: Appreciation for the Old Timers (/showthread.php?tid=1611)
Pages: 1 2
Appreciation for the Old Timers - and the NEW - 11-19-2014 06:46 AM
I thought I would start a thread for the old timers. Any of the great fights or fighters you liked from days gone by.
I will start with a clip - the HD quality of today has really bought his devastating power to life. Voted the #1 hardest puncher pound for pound of all-time by the Ring, I bring you....
Joe Louis.
Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02bbD_om8o8
RE: Appreciation for the Old Timers - ViperSniper - 11-19-2014 07:02 AM
Great idea ATN!
Entertaining fight here with one of my favs Floyd Patterson.
RE: Appreciation for the Old Timers - and the NEW - 11-19-2014 07:23 AM
McNeeley used that range and the jab pretty well for the first couple of rounds, but Patterson was just way too explosive for him, once he got past that jab, it was a massacre on the inside.
RE: Appreciation for the Old Timers - Decagon - 11-19-2014 08:38 AM
Peter McNeeley, his son, the one who fought Mike Tyson in the most popular pay-per-view up until that point, never knew his dad was a boxer until he was going through the attic and found a Sports Illustrated issue with Tom McNeeley on the cover.
RE: Appreciation for the Old Timers - Warlord - 11-19-2014 11:11 AM
Any of you cats from the old maxboxing/boxingtalk days may remember this, but my all-time favorite fighter is Rocky Marciano. There's some good videos of him out there that I really like, but I don't have time at the moment to track them all down. The video below is one of them though:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V7zuh1E1PgA
RE: Appreciation for the Old Timers - Dickagon - 11-19-2014 03:20 PM
Louis did some real subtle shit in his prime that no one else has done since.
RE: Appreciation for the Old Timers - Decagon - 11-19-2014 04:00 PM
Louis was arguably the greatest offensive fighter of all time, pound-for-pound.
RE: Appreciation for the Old Timers - blackbelt2003 - 11-19-2014 06:13 PM
(11-19-2014 04:00 PM)Decagon Wrote: Louis was arguably the greatest offensive fighter of all time, pound-for-pound.
Whenever I hear a coach tell a fighter to 'shorten their punches', I immediately think of Joe Louis.
The guy threw the perfect short right and left hook. So much power. The only other heavyweights to come close were Marciano and Tyson…but the former was more from brute strength and force and the latter from speed and natural power. Joe Louis did it with absolutely perfectly honed technique.
Black
RE: Appreciation for the Old Timers - and the NEW - 11-20-2014 05:37 AM
(11-19-2014 06:13 PM)blackbelt2003 Wrote:(11-19-2014 04:00 PM)Decagon Wrote: Louis was arguably the greatest offensive fighter of all time, pound-for-pound.
Whenever I hear a coach tell a fighter to 'shorten their punches', I immediately think of Joe Louis.
The guy threw the perfect short right and left hook. So much power.
Black
Yeah, Louis just had that incredible balance and such impeccable measurement of the distance, that he would get his shots off with leverage and in that range that doesn't suffocate your shots, but doesn't leave the opponent on the end of your punches - right in the sweet spot. Like Mayweather stays so relaxed on defence in the pocket, Louis had the same ability, but on offense.
(11-19-2014 03:20 PM)gravytrain Wrote: Louis did some real subtle shit in his prime that no one else has done since.
You got any examples gravy?
RE: Appreciation for the Old Timers - and the NEW - 11-20-2014 07:58 AM
A great tribute to Smokin Joe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SXZBEFrg7Mg