Many tried, many failed to: maul..rabbit punch...punch after the bell...head butt.............Joe. He was a machine (probably/partly) driven by the history of racism in the U.S. Through it all, a giant of fierce determination while remaining a gentleman. Where have you gone Joe Dimaggio and Louis! We'll never see his like again.

Buddy Baer- 6-6, 238lbs (as big as a Klitschko) , 26 years old, and a career ko % of 78%! Here Louis proves he is an all time great by fighting YOUNG AND BIG AND POWERFUL Heavyweights!!

Buddy Baer. He’s the guy that breaks the bulls neck and saves the girl in the movie Quo Vatis

Baer, the nightmare opponent: big as a house, tough as nails, fights dirty, and equipped with a nasty left if he gets a chance. When his second-round volley couldn't finish Baer, Joe realized he had his work cut out for him. He prevailed, but nobody can look good fighting Baer.

Joe was punching perfection

The punch Louis hit him with at 12:11 was an absolute crushing blow. The kind that can only be delivered by Joe Louis.

Such precision by Louis...he was so good he made Baer look graceful getting knocked out

Joe Louis, greatest fighter of all time, & I admit I'm biased coz I grew up on Joe Louis, but according to "Ring Magazine" & "W.B.C. Belt" they finally crunched the numbers & the stats & they determined that Joe Louis is the longest reigning champion, best puncher of all time & best all round fighter of all time, finally my biased opinion has been vindicated, 🙂

Marciano said Louis had the best jab he'd ever seen. And that was at the end of Joe's career.

A Joe Louis MASTERCLASS!!!!!!

Louis is the most fundamentally flawless puncher I've ever seen, save Ray Robinson. Ridiculous power, unbelievable accuracy, explosive speed, unpredictable angles. Truly sublime

The last knockdown was comical Louis just walked past him on his way to his corner and casually knocked him spark out ... Stone cold finisher Louis 👍

Buddy gets knocked out at 12:38 - the ref hands on hips like damn. He finally gets up while Joe comes back with another punch to lay 'em out.

The left hook that throws Louis out of the ring shows the amaizing streangth if this gient and how dangerous boxing is. But this film shows that Louis could "fight" as well as box. I meen in the next round he drops the technique and slugs it out. Why ? He had to get some "respect" from the big guy...Calm him down...get things back into the pace of a normal boxing match.

Agree Louis was the best finisher in Heavyweight history he got you in trouble you were knocked out

Baer had no business being in the ring with Louis. He never once made any attempt to slip or duck a punch. He never used his superior reach to keep Louis away with a jab. His only defense was to lean on Louis. I don't think any of Baer's punches had any steam after the 3d round.

the stamina of these big men is unbelievable....joe louis...i have never ever seen him tired...and i have seen most of his fights.

Todays boxing fans would have predicted Baer to win just because of his size. People back then knew Louis would destroy him

This is for pure fun!! Buddy Baer was the giant in "Abbott and Costello's Jack and the Beanstalk" lol. God bless!

joe expert at staying in close,negating baers reach and power

Buddy Baer’s strategy was just to hold with one arm and flail away with the other

Buddy bears corner men don't care about their fighters health a well being lol

Never saw a boxer leaning their face into a punch like this guy!

Love how calm Louis walks away after a knockdown .... That last right hand was like a missile the way Baer was slumped on his stool was crazy Louis wrecked Baers for fun hahah 🤣

Buddy Baer was as cumbersome as a daddy long legs, Louis was a finely tuned machine.

Yes, Joe louis got the better of him, but I am very impressed with Baer. He fought very well.

louis was a panther inn the ring.quick and deadly.his power might even surprise todays heavyweights

Wow...I didn't know "Jethro"s" uncle knocked Joe Louis out of the F-ing ring!!! (2:30)

The referee was substandard here. Didnt hear the bell on two occasions!

Joe Louis....love you

Bruh! I've never seen somebody get hit so hard they spun. Joe Louis was not a joke 😬

LOUIS WAS GREAT HE BEAT TWO POLAR BEARS, MAX AND BUDDY. THIS WAS A TERRIBLE BIAS REF, WHEN LOUIS WAS KNOCK THRU THE ROPES, AND HE ENTERED BACK INTO THE RING , HE SHOULD'VE BEEN GIVING THE 8 COUNT BY REF, BUT REF, THOUGHT BUDDY COULD KO LOUIS, SO HE LET THAT BEAR GO, RIGHT AT LOUIS, BUT IT BACK FIRED

this is what made Louis so incredible - you could see he had vulnerabilities (and big ones) yet he always triumphed in the end. It's easy to be champ when things are going well but the true test is when you're knocked clean out the ring like Dempsey and Louis.

Fuck! Look at the weight difference.Damn!

Greatness

@farrell360 Nah, Commentary is added. The only live commentary at the time was radio. Fight film commentaries were added afterwards, and obviously weren't live. And the guy doing this commentary is John Rawling, I think. And he was born 16 years after this fight had taken place!

Fun fact: Buddy Baer was Max Baer Jr's uncle. Max Jr. played "Jethro" on the "Beverly Hillbillies."

Can’t believe how big and strong was buddy Baer, Abe simon and primo carnera. And none of them used a left jab and longer reach to keep Louis away I will acknowledge that today’s heavyweight like Bowe, Lewis , golota, the klitchkos and Joshua and fury can used their reach and size advantage

Nowadays Joe surely would not be "heavy" in any sport. I have been that weight at 5 feet 8ins.

OLD BUDDY BEAR TOOK A KNIFE 2 A GUN FIGHT HE WAS JOE'S PUNCHING BAG I'M BEWILDERED THAT HE DIDN'T THROW MORE PUNCHES

No belief in weight lifting affected both martial arts and boxing for decades. Baer looks very smooth but he was very strong.

Something about the way Baer falls. No chicken leg ala Juda..no flopping around ala Berbick...just a pretty little pirouette and crumbles to the mat!

Louis misses with jab at 0:45 but his jab was great and this proves Louis could hang with the super heavies of today!

His champ brother Max never hurt Louis or lander in solid punches, like Buddy did.

Louis could have just thrown straight rights and crosses. would have been stopped middle of the second round. Baers left never came up above his own ribs!!!!!??? I don't call that baiting when you eat 50 power punches to the left side of the face. craziness! Joe looked good in this fight.

Crushing right hand ! The beginning of the end !

Is this the original British commentary? Thanks

The final round of the match began around 10:35 of the video. Baer hit the mat for the third time before the 13:00 of the video.That's is only 2:25, of a three minute round. So the bell either was rung too early. Or it was rung because the referee ended the fight.

What happened to the original soundtrack? This commentary is overwrought. Louis never in any doubt.

Marciano hit harder

Fucking crooked referees ending the round before the bell even sounds, just because their favorite fighter is in trouble. Wow.

“Almost knocked out” and he got up right away without hesitation.

2:32 that's the scene I was looking for.

Of course old boxing is totaly different than modern boxing. But if you count that in, Joe Louis was perhaps the greatest of all time.

joe louis is tbe

Classic

No I don't agree I think boxing has declined as a sport fighters aren't as skilled anymore nowadays fighters are just more athletic clinching and inside fighting are a lost art they just hide behind a high guard nowadays even with movement and shifting is lost art fighters can barely even shoulder roll and suffocate punches which was common practice back in the day

Love Joe Louis. Great, great man not just great boxer

Buddy put up a much better fight than his brother Max did.

The big baer enters the ring & Joe says yeah bring it....

2:32 don't see that every day

Fight should have been stopped. No need for a man to be beaten like that.

Why does tha gloves look smaller back then🤔

Baer blew it when he didn't follow up well after he knocked Louis down in the first round.

At 2:31 , WHY wasn't there a count by the ref..... OBVIOUSLY a knockdown. !!!

Buen pelea

I think Baer was braver and tougher than Klitschko and might beat him if they could fight.

Ouch 🤕 that fight should of been stopped after the first KO .

How did the ref let that fight go on so long. Poor guy was almost killed in there.

The ref kept breaking them up while they were still fighting

None disqualified necessarily, just a good ol as kicking. Gotta give it to Louis, he'd always been the lightest and the smallest fighter compared to most of his appointments.

Mistake for Baer fighting with his head and chin low. He should had fighted straight not lower

Had this lummox learned to work behind his jab,he would beat louis and company in this era.Did nothing but everything wong.

Jethro's old man was pretty good.

12:00 Jeez. He fell funny.

So he kicked both their asses, Max and Buddy.

Baer just had no real defense for Louis. Either inside or outside.

Джо красавчик !)

Oh excuse me more polished than Max, which ain't saying much 😆

The commentry on this is far to clean for it to be originall

Que buen boxeo

I don't think it was called a boxing ring in those days it was the "gladiator pit" because one nearly gets beaten to death before the fight ends. That last punch thrown by Louis could of killed him.

1832 3rd ave.. remind them close to tha house as they can

Buddy is much more polished than Max

I can't believe how long they let the fights go on back then. This was disgusting watching the ref just stand there and let it go on. I guess that was the times. it took Boom Boom Mancini killing the Korean kid that changed the way they protect the fighters now. No more 15 rounds. 12 rounds for a championship fight.

haha louis murders this guy and hoffman[baers corner] trys to win it on a technical.hoffman missed his calling,he shoulda been a lawyer.had hoffman bullshitted his way thru on the technical,baer would have won the fight in a coma,haaaaa

refs did nt rush to stop the fight in those days.

Buddy B is no Tyson Fury plus size!!!!!!

"ANVIL" Hoffman? Really?

Baer really clobbers Louis with that left hook at 2:29 Right hand left hook. Baer was championship level in that one moment. The ref doesn't know what the hell he is doing when he stops he round before it is over, helping Louis who had just been down.

Loved Baer's strategy after the 3rd round: Duck...keep your head down! The only thing keeping Baer up was Louis, as Baer desperately did his best to use Louis's body from falling down. I wonder if Louis ever gave these guys credit for taking so much punishment (being the gentleman he was, I'm sure he did). What was the ref doing at the end? waiting for Louis to kill Baer (amazing that he got up twice)

i missed this fight. i was over in Guadal Canal fighting in a fox hole! lol

What the hell is a "stone"?

Buddy had roles in many films, including a major part in Quo Vadis

Juiz lerdo. Nas duas quedas do gigante, o juiz não iniciou a contagem.

Bon cogneur mais trop prétentieux que son père trop sur de lui il a rendu les armes comme son père face à Jim bradoock 👏💪✊👍

some not sane odd person said this to me, I've seen your videos on Deontay, as well as your ones on Wlad and the 70s-90s comparison. I find most of it disagreeable, mainly with how you describe the techniques being shown in their respective clips. I agree that Galento, Baer, Braddock, and Carnera were crude boxers, but they were also seen as crude for their own time. I also agree with Marciano's technique being vastly overrated. I disagree with your views on Louis the most. In fact, I think Louis looks great in most of the footage that you use to try and prove your point. In the 70s-90s video, you use Carnera footage to argue that Louis has stiff and sluggish movement, but Louis is moving beautifully in that footage. He's constantly circling with Carnera, moving in and out, feinting, using head movement, parrying, and slipping his jab, while peppering him at will with his own jabs. You argue that Louis looks unsure of himself, but I'd say he looks extremely confident and that Carnera is the only one looking terrified. Carnera has a decent jab but overall looks crude, but Louis looks like a modern boxer in that fight. It's the same case for the footage you use for the Baer fight. You argue that Louis looks sluggish, lacks upper and lower body movement, and can't effectively punch from range or punch while moving. I disagree; in fact, I think Louis pretty much does this in the examples you use. Louis is effortlessly jabbing and hooking from range and is doing it incredibly smoothly. He's using nuanced lateral movement and punching beautifully while doing it. He's dominating the crude Baer like any great boxer would. In your Deontay video, you use a terrified Schmeling getting bulldozed by a rushing Louis in a minute as an example of how Louis and Schmeling can't fight from range or manage distance. I don't think that's really fair; it's clear from the other fights that Louis knows how to use range, angles, and manage distance. I also don't think Louis looks horrible at all here; in fact, he's constantly feinting and anxious to parry that right hand, since you emphasize looking at their hands. They both do well at defending themselves on the inside at 1:18-1:25. Very tight guards. Schmeling cleverly blocks, then rolls Louis' punches at 0:54. I don't think this is the best exampleofr either of their technical brilliance, but I don't think they look bad either. It's important to note that Schmeling said that he was scaredsh*tlesss before the figh, and basically lost before the fightbegan,n like Spinks against Tyson. You also use a pastprime,e Louis and Conn, who had just fought 4 years in the war, from their 1946 fight as your example for why they're inefficient at range, mostly punch just when they stop, stand in front of their opponents waiting to be hit, and even in thiscase,e I still disagree with you. The past prime, basically shot Billy Conn effectively uses lateral movement and isn't predictable with it, parries and overall defends himselfwell,l and jabs from range well. I still think theydido all of these things much better in their first match, especially Conn. I also don't think a pastprime minister,e Ezzard Charles, who reportedly had symptoms of ALS as early as 1951, is the best example to use to define that era's techniques either. Same with the Moore and Dempsey clips. Dempsey,Charles,s and Moore didn't fight like that normally atall,l and when you watch their fights in fulllength,h that becomes clear. Dempsey displays crisp head movement and good technique in his fights with Brennan, Gibbons, and in his training footage with Bill Tate. He even displays good defenseand,d attimes,s technique in his past prime footage against Sharkey and Tunney. 4- yea- old Moore was cooking Marciano at range in the early rounds of their fight, and effectivelydefendingd himself while countering Rock.,Evennthen,n I find Moore's performances against Bivins and Davidson much more impressive. Charles looks modern in his fight against Lloyd Marshall. They're all much more skilled than Deontay. Can you watch my video of Deon/Foreman Louis Vid and tell me if you see anybody that fought Deon or himself or if anybody I showed Foreman fought or himself was less skilled or using the same obsolete tech as the guys I compared them to?

Joe beat up the baer brothers.

After Joe Louis passed away, Ali paid him a huge compliment by saying that it was Louis and not himself who was the greatest heavyweight of all time.

I just read n article online saying Baer was a better boxer than Wlad Klitschko and Deontay Wilder. Truth is, Baer is a terrible boxer. As ric ricland mentions below, Baer doesn't even know what a jab is, and for a guy 6'6" tall, that's inexcusable. He should be using his reach to keep Louis off of him, and instead he's walking right to him--all while holding his hands low and his head still.