Quote Originally Posted by mokele
I looked at most of the responses here and I couldn't find any mention of Joe Louis, a man who dominated heavyweight boxing for many years and who successfully defended his title 25 times. He did have a couple of close shaves during that time, split decision wins over Arturo Godoy and Jersey Joe Walcott and a late knockout behind on points against Billy Conn, but otherwise he pretty much destroyed his opposition. I would call that serious dominance!

Larry Holmes dominated the heavyweight division for around 7 years and also mostly won decisively with only a few close shaves, a split decision win over Tim Witherspoon, a close call with Earnie Shavers and a close fight with Carl "the truth" Williams. He came within 1 fight of tying Marciano's record of 49 straight victories as a heavyweight, losing his 49th fight with Michael Spinks in 1985.

Yeah just a shame Max Schmeling knocked his a** out before he became world champ

Not to mention getting dropped by the 40's version of Butterbean Two Ton Galento, winning a gift decision over Joe Woolcott after getting dropped twice amongst others.

I actually think Louis is overrated.


And almost losing to Billy Conn is actually pretty woeful considering he outweighed by him by more than 30 pounds. Conn wasn't even a heavyweight.

Loius would have been comfortably beaten by some of the true greats Ali, Holmes, Lewis, Liston etc