Vitali Klitschko vs Joe Louis - Who wins?

[AlwaysOnTop]

How does Vitali have better reflexes than Louis? what? and if he tried to taunt Louis with his hands down and chin out he would get KTFO Louis had one of the fastest hands in the heavyweight division next to Patterson, Ali and Tyson. Vitali doesn't have anywhere near the speed or skill to fight in the manner that you're describing against someone as skilled as Louis.

Preach..

Vitali keeps his feet too far apart..that means his defensive options are severely limited....Louis would be all over that clown.

Not only that....He LEANS STRAIGHT BACK like a fresh rookie.

[AlwaysOnTop]

Skill? Intelligence? Jab, jab, clinch. Jab, jab, right. Jab, jab, stumble back ackwards so he doesn't get hit? Do u call that skill. Please. He is big and strong that is it. Some people say he is athletic but he is NOT.

[Dudley]

Joe Louis is better than Chris Byrd...and Lennox Louis.


Joe had a bum of the month tour...

Vitali had a bum of the month CAREER..

wow that's a reality bat!

[raskat]

I think its interesting how most pple say Joe Louis is number 1 in the list of the greatest Heavyweights of all time, while those exact same pple say Vitali Klitschko is "top 20".
and now we have this poll and those same pple who put Louis as number 1 and Vitali "somewhere between 15 and 20", vote that Klitschko would beat Joe Louis.

Of course, one thing is legacy and the other thing is "head to head", but on the other hand, ....aint that somehow the same? Or shouldnt it be the same? Meaning you place somebody at number 1 if you think he will beat everybody else on his best night?

[The_Demon]

Louis wins a decision,although a stoppage on cuts isnt out of the question,his speed power and accuracy would simply be too much

[UglyPug]

Unlike the Klitschkos..

Carnera threw more punches..was faster...moved better..and could get off the canvas and continue fighting.

He would have killed Chris Byrd and Ross Purity..

Carnera was considered a bum in his era...Today he'd be the long term champion.

Vitali would have been laughed out of boxing in Carnera's day.

are u serious?! vitali holds all kinds of records for most punches thrown, most punches landed, and accuracy, etc., etc. . . vitali pops out like 50 jabs a round. . . most of them land with startling accuracy and surgical precision. . . faster? i don't think so. . . move better? vitali is a RING GENERAL with very good feet and EXCELLENT head and upper body movement. . . getting off the canvas? well vitali has never tasted it, because he has one of the best chins of all time. . .

vitali would demolish joe louis . . .

[Dudley]

actually, i see more hate on the present than the past. . . more people live off past nostalgic matches, and always say "imagine if "X present fighter" tried to fight "X past fighter", they would be destroyed"!

im just basing my opinion on the styles and skill-sets of both fighters. . . i think louis's style would play right into vitali's hands, literally. . .

Are you saying this watching tape and reading up on what your talking about. Just So you know There where guys back in the day soooo good the guys whop took advantage of that Learned from them and didn't gight them becasue of that they looked like. But they learned ahell of a lot from them.

You've Never heard of the Black murderers row. But the touted Sugar Ray Robinson Avoided 2 guys from that troop! Honestly if your a fan of boxing Look back bro Look back at where Manny Steward and Eddie Futch Learned their craft! The used to hold buckets of the true greats the true strategists! boxing isn't just one current decade of the best, boxing has a history and until you look back and see who was great for what they did then you will never understand how much of a drop off your looking at now. FACT! not hate bro i loooove this sport but you have to realize how deep it is. I personally think Jerry Cooney if he was in his prime today would be running ****! fa SHO!

[UglyPug]

hell, not even vitali when he was younger. . vitali right now would toy with louis. . .

i don't think you guys realize how good fo an athlete vitali is. . . how excellent he is at "reading and reacting" in the ring. . . the intelligence. . . louis was a just a flat nosed, ugly pug! no game plan adjustments. . . no ability to adapt. . .

[raskat]

Louis wins a decision,although a stoppage on cuts isnt out of the question,his speed power and accuracy would simply be too much

I respect Joe Louis, but you talk about his speed? Do you know that he was actually not very fast? Watch the footage. His footwork was bad too. But he had a big punch and was accurate. But that wouldnt help against Vitali cause Louis wouldnt be able to hit Vitali.

[UglyPug]

Are you saying this watching tape and reading up on what your talking about. Just So you know There where guys back in the day soooo good the guys whop took advantage of that Learned from them and didn't gight them becasue of that they looked like. But they learned ahell of a lot from them.

You've Never heard of the Black murderers row. But the touted Sugar Ray Robinson Avoided 2 guys from that troop! Honestly if your a fan of boxing Look back bro Look back at where Manny Steward and Eddie Futch Learned their craft! The used to hold buckets of the true greats the true strategists! boxing isn't just one current decade of the best, boxing has a history and until you look back and see who was great for what they did then you will never understand how much of a drop off your looking at now. FACT! not hate bro i loooove this sport but you have to realize how deep it is. I personally think Jerry Cooney if he was in his prime today would be running ****! fa SHO!

ive done plenty of studying of the sport, and i realize that boxing is comprised of multiple fistic eras. . . however, boxing has evolved. . . vitali is the perfect example of a fighter who has "evolved" from one style of fighting, to being able to read and react. . . just like mayweather - he is an evolved fighter; he doesn't have a game-plan because he doesn't need one. he just adjusts on the fly as necessary. . .

you're contradicting yourself by saying that boxing is just not one generation, by claiming that all these fighters from the past who "learned" their craft are the best. . . boxing has gradually evolved, not DEVOLVED. . .

yes, while a lot of great fighters from the past would beat fighters today, just the same, plenty of modern fighters would beat fighters from the past.

im not basing my opinion on any silly arguments of past vs. present, but rather the styles of vitali and louis, and their skill-sets.