Quote Originally Posted by bilbo
Louis was an overrated bum. Knocked on his ass by Two Ton Galento, a man who if he had existed in the present era would have been fighting 4 rounders with Butterbean.

He only just beat Billy Conn who he outweighed by about 30 lbs.

He should have lost to Jersey Joe Walcott, the 40' and 50's version of Frank Bruno.

He was famously flat footed, his wooden performances in the ring matched only by his dark mahogany varnished wooden acting career.

They called him the Brown Bomber, truth is he just bombed.
To my mind he was an underrated boxer (due mainly to the excellent Jackie Blackburn), with fast, heavy hands.

But what truly defines his Greatness, is that he was a figurehead who IMO (sorry Paul Robeson, you were merely #2), did more than anyone before Martin Luther King to unify the Black and White people of the USA (in the 20th Century).