Heavyweight champion with the most rewatch value?

Yeah when you watch it back its surprising. I think ruddock ended the fight with a badly damaged jaw and hit the floor a few times, tyson himself was clearly stunned on multiple occasions.

Ruddock used to jump into that huge left hook an there's times in the fight it lands squarely on tysons chin and he doesn't even budge and you're thinking how can he take those shots flush.

 

Ruddock had both a broken jaw and wrist after the second fight. I believe he had some other injures as well. Tyson i'm not sure of but i'd imagine he didn't feel too shit hot the next day.

 

I often read on internet forums that if you fought tyson back he lost. false. these internet cowboys should watch tyson ruddock 2.

its a shame really

 

That was Tyson's last great performance but he had a good dance partner for that style of fight.

Even though he went to prison afterward the signs were there Mike was trying to win fights on power alone. I don't know if Evander beats a peak Tyson of earlier years, but i think he's live or a favorite against the Tyson post Douglas and Ruddock.

A lot of the same tactics Holyfield utilized against the post prison Tyson still would have worked at the time.

 

Holyfield, Patterson

 

I like a lot of Quarrys big wins, like Spencer, Lyle, Shavers. Great viewing. Quarry did a lot of things very well and used technique and accuracy to take guys out.

 

True. Not a champion, however.

 

Yes, but he would have been in todays goofy division.

Oh wait this isn't the myths thread either.

I'll get my gown.

 

You hate Duran AND Tyson?

When did you start watching boxing, 2005?

 

Ali
Lewis
Foreman
Louis

 

Let's be real, Quarry's defining quality in your third-world tribalist mindset wasn't his technique in the ring.

 

That's the exact thought I had immediately following me reading the title of this thread.:Ramonza:

 

I'm the only one to vote Joe Louis? You're all off your nut.

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Yeah, if my favorite heavyweights ever include Ali and Holmes that sure does sound like a plausible conclusion. Different people can like different things you know.

And Hut: I like to watch Joe Louis, he is the one fighter that has made me think my take on old-timers (if briefly and only in my weak moments)

 

Louis's the most technically perfect puncher ever. Like a living, moving textbook with violent highlight reel KOs as illustration. The way he turns over shots is endlessly rewatchable.

(note I didn't say the most technically perfect all round fighter, before we plunge down that rabbit hole )

 

Those crisp hooks still look impressive indeed. After his era, inside fighting developed a lot (Louis was the pioneer while many of his contenders lacked at that aspect), then it has been forgotten again.

 

I agree. Watching him fight was a thing of beauty.

 

To WFW (Whites from Winnipeg) all non-whites are black. But when I look at film and pcs of Joe Louis I don't see a...let me put it this way...Jack Johnson-style black man. I see a mixed race kinda dude...

 

Just fucken with ya.

Louis reminds me in many ways of Alexis Arguello.

 

Yes! We're claiming him then! :mj:

 

Just fucken with ya too... ::

 

You're not just allowed to take somebody, there has to be a trade.

 

One of my coworkers is a black dude who grew up in England like you. Maybe you know him?

 

Pieds De Plomo

 

I'm buying a Joe Louis dvd. Youtube doesn't seem to have alot of his fights, or am i not looking hard enough?

 

TORRENTS

 

Think the black folk would take Joe Calzaghe in return?

 

Not sure but i'm willing to sign off on it.