Who Is Boxings Best Role-Model?

[winky44]

The way Louis handled himself was classy: A trait found far too seldom these days. The in-your-face militantism (over many issues, not just race) that came into vogue in the 1960s may have appeal on some primitive emotional level but I find the classiness of Louis to be far more admirable and more in keeping with the gentility of a society that purports to civilized as opposed to the decent back into primitive barbarism that the 1960s represents.

Poet

very interesting.......poet have you laced then gloves up man? out of interest

[StarshipTrooper]

very interesting.......poet have you laced then gloves up man? out of interest

I have sparred before, in my late teens to early 20s. Boxed competetively? No. My eyesight prevented me from doing anything more than sparring.

Poet

[winky44]

I have sparred before, in my late teens to early 20s. Boxed competetively? No. My eyesight prevented me from doing anything more than sparring.

Poet

real, whats up with your eyes? lots of boxers were glasses

[StarshipTrooper]

real, whats up with your eyes? lots of boxers were glasses

I'm practically blind without glasses: Have been since Junior High. Take off the specs and I can't see what I'm punching at let alone seeing punches coming in.

Poet

[TheGreatA]

I believe Joe Louis pressured golf clubs into breaking the so-called "colour barrier" and allowing black people to play.

He also gave chances to black challengers such as Jersey Joe Walcott and Ezzard Charles. Jack Johnson never did this.

He was not dumb. Coined more popular phrases than probably any other boxer including Muhammad Ali.

Every time someone says:

"He can run, but he can't hide."
"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die."
"I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves."
"Everyone's got a plan until they get hit."
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

they're quoting Joe Louis.

Louis was simply too generous and got into trouble for it.

[winky44]

I'm practically blind without glasses: Have been since Junior High. Take off the specs and I can't see what I'm punching at let alone seeing punches coming in.

Poet

wow, coundt of you got laser and then laced the gloves up. harry greb boxed blind in one eye and still beat tunney.

[TheGreatA]

wow, coundt of you got laser and then laced the gloves up. harry greb boxed blind in one eye and still beat tunney.

Harry Greb didn't have other options.

[winky44]

Harry Greb didn't have other options.

Greb could of become a trainer. i can imagine poet would of made a good boxer for some reason, real student of the game. he should train fighters.

anyway, i have been told you box great a. have you laced them up???

[StarshipTrooper]

wow, coundt of you got laser and then laced the gloves up. harry greb boxed blind in one eye and still beat tunney.

I don't recall lazer surgery being an available option back in the 1980s. Even had it been I wouldn't been able to afford it back then. Circa 1989 (the timeframe we're talking about here) I was a college student working part-time for $7 and hour and no insurance.

Poet

[mickey malone]

The way Louis handled himself was classy: A trait found far too seldom these days. The in-your-face militantism (over many issues, not just race) that came into vogue in the 1960s may have appeal on some primitive emotional level but I find the classiness of Louis to be far more admirable and more in keeping with the gentility of a society that purports to civilized as opposed to the decent back into primitive barbarism that the 1960s represents.

Poet

We could also bring Schmelling into the equation..
Although often used as Hitlers puppet.. This had nothing to do with him as a man..
In later life Louis's health deteriorated & he would have become destitute, had it not been for the life long financial support given to him by his mutual friend & former foe..
Schmelling was indeed a great ambassador, for mankind as well as boxing..