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First: DAM, I have seen footage of Joe Louis, but haven't seen this much.
His technique was incredible...he had fast, short, accurate, sharp, punches, filled with power...he could throw nice combinations in bunches, something you don't see to often from heavyweights...his Jab, something a lot of the modern heavyweights forget to use, was tremendous: he actually out jabbed much taller men, like Max Baer...his balance was also great and on top of it all, he stayed calm no matter what.
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I would like to touch on a "touchy" topic that was brought up in the show: something about how after the victory over Max, a writer compared Joe to a "Black Cat/Panther"...Brian Kenney thought this to be "racist", Bert Sugar on the other hand pointed out a few things: that it was the "30's/the time"...it was not to knock Joe, but to show how great he was...In my opinon, yes, it could be seen that it was racist, given that he was compared to a "Animal", but look at the animal he was compared to, "A Black Cat/Panther"...have you ever seen this animal fight? Say it was a Panther {big black cat}, they are very calm, beautiful to look at, patient, strong, fast, and when they see their prey, they don't tend to go hungry
It might sound "racist", but aren't humans still animals?
Just like in mythology where they came up with the Centaur, it was symbolic: half man, half animal...something only the Gods could have made.
The Panther has great Mystique, and is a great "animal" to be compared with. Though I don't know the writer, if he is a poet styled writer, it was probably not meant to be racist, but it was there to describe to READERS what he was seeing: A man, in this case Max Baer, trying to go up against an "Animal" he could not defeat, a "Black Cat/Panther" Joe Louis. The writer had probably never seen such a fighter in the ring; what Joe could do was ahead of his time, something unreal, and something out of mythology.
Though this is all speculation of what he could have meant, and based on a hopeful innocent view, I can at least take a positive side to the story.
Joe Louis was just a Mythological being at this point of his career, something that had to be made special by the Gods because no Mortal man could have such ability.
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His technique was incredible...he had fast, short, accurate, sharp, punches, filled with power...he could throw nice combinations in bunches, something you don't see to often from heavyweights...his Jab, something a lot of the modern heavyweights forget to use, was tremendous: he actually out jabbed much taller men, like Max Baer...his balance was also great and on top of it all, he stayed calm no matter what.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I would like to touch on a "touchy" topic that was brought up in the show: something about how after the victory over Max, a writer compared Joe to a "Black Cat/Panther"...Brian Kenney thought this to be "racist", Bert Sugar on the other hand pointed out a few things: that it was the "30's/the time"...it was not to knock Joe, but to show how great he was...In my opinon, yes, it could be seen that it was racist, given that he was compared to a "Animal", but look at the animal he was compared to, "A Black Cat/Panther"...have you ever seen this animal fight? Say it was a Panther {big black cat}, they are very calm, beautiful to look at, patient, strong, fast, and when they see their prey, they don't tend to go hungry
It might sound "racist", but aren't humans still animals?
Just like in mythology where they came up with the Centaur, it was symbolic: half man, half animal...something only the Gods could have made.
The Panther has great Mystique, and is a great "animal" to be compared with. Though I don't know the writer, if he is a poet styled writer, it was probably not meant to be racist, but it was there to describe to READERS what he was seeing: A man, in this case Max Baer, trying to go up against an "Animal" he could not defeat, a "Black Cat/Panther" Joe Louis. The writer had probably never seen such a fighter in the ring; what Joe could do was ahead of his time, something unreal, and something out of mythology.
Though this is all speculation of what he could have meant, and based on a hopeful innocent view, I can at least take a positive side to the story.
Joe Louis was just a Mythological being at this point of his career, something that had to be made special by the Gods because no Mortal man could have such ability.
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