Jim Jeffries John L Sullivan Jack Johnson Jess Willard Max Bear Joe Louis Max Schmelling KO's them ALL. No doubt in my mind at all.
What do YOU think? Please enlighten me. Who out of those black and white stone age boxers beats Ike. WHO?!
70 years on nobody's outright topped Louis in pure punching technique. Every punch in the book, dynamite from any range & in any direction, all in balanced, controlled combinations. That isn't to say the game mightn't have moved on in other ways, but to lump him in with guys from the 1890s who barely knew what a jab was is nutty.
Yup and, as I said, even Jack Johnson is like willie pep compared with the likes of Corbett and Jeffries