Max Baer had a great quote about Joe louis and Fear. Something like this, "Fear is seeing Joe Louis on the opposite side of the ring, knowing that Joe wants to go home early that night."

Jerssy joe walcott had his own unique style. Maybe similar to others but much more prominent in that shuffling switching style

I really can’t understand why people were booing the decision either . True , Walcott scored several times in some rounds and made Louis look bad in others , but he must’ve been delusional to think that would have been enough to take his title. For all the backpedaling and running around the ring to avoid getting tagged . Nope, it is the challenger who has to be the aggressor and win CONVINCINGLY.

11:21 i love this part because it shows how Louis can't find the distance nor connect a punch to Walcott. What a beautiful defense

Walcott made the mistake of so many fighters. Believing he had the decision in the bag, he went defensive during the final 3 rounds, sitting on his assumed lead. Louis swept those late rounds. You can never tell what the judges are thinking. You have to fight every round until that final bell. Also realize that this bout was scored under a rounds system and not points like today. So those 2 knockdown rounds were merely a winning round for Walcott. Not 2 point edges as we would currently see.

thanks for ULIng these fights.... huge fan of all eras, esp pre-70s

Walcott was such a good fighter. its really too bad he had to wait so long to get the heavyweight championship fights. His duels with Charles were memorable. He gave Louis all he wanted here, and many thought he won. He was beating Marciano when Rocky caught him with a KO punch. Walcott defined the term ringwise: understood angles and distance, moves around the ring like a big cat, excellent counterpuncher as exhibited by that first knockdown.

Jersey Joe got robbed here. His footwork is like a more mobile version of Old George Foreman, just out for a casual stroll.

Walcott is tricky AF

Incomplete rounds: 2nd round, 1 minute. 3rd round, 46 seconds. 5th round, 33 seconds. 6th round, 53 seconds. 7th round, 56 seconds. 8th round, 1 minute 5 seconds. 9th round, 2 minutes 5 seconds. 10th round, 26 seconds. 11th round, 21 seconds. 12th round, 31 seconds. 13th round, 26 seconds. 14th round, 15 seconds. 15th round, 31 seconds. With only one round (besides the knockdown rounds) shown having more than half a minute, with the available footage of this fight, scoring is impossible unless you are very biased or unaware.

Jersey Joe was something special...... You can tell Ali learned a lot from watching him fight

Jersey Joe was damn smooth!!!! Thanks for posting man!!!!

I was two years old when this fight occurred.

Joe Louis had a light complection. He was also part Native American. A soft spoken People's Champ.

Complete and utter robbery. Walcott, who was giving up 16 1/2 pounds to Louis, gave Louis a boxing lesson for 15 rounds and dropped him twice. This is a classic example of an institution protecting its preferred member and guaranteeing an outcome it wanted. Sickening.

The Gen. Electric recording equipment was so superior that you can hear the overtone of the bell for a half minute

Как только стал интересоваться историей бокса, сразу обратил внимание на Джерси Джо Уолкотта. Очень интересные бои выдавал.

what moves by Jersey Joe!

People are forgetting that many top fighters ran away from fighting Walcott. Had he been given a title fight in his prime, you probably have a different boxing history with Walcott being one of the greatest ever.

it felt like a Draw.....upon further review .. Walcott never took it Louis was always stalking and you never win these deals backing up no matter how many jabs...those hard shots determine

There will never and I mean never be another Jersey Joe Walcott. Never!

Would love to see it in its entirety. This is amazing footage. The edited in crowd noises are a little annoying though

Is this the only footage of this fight?

Louis was coming off his second layoff. He hadn't fought in 15 months, his timing was off and he was past his peak. Walcott was the same age but didn't miss time because of the war. His reflexes were still sharp. He just ran the last 3 rounds leaving the door open for the controversial decision. If Louis had been fighting regularly he would have knocked Walcott out!

Walcott one this hand's down his knockdown of Louis cemented his Victory

I don't get it. People here say Walcott is crafty, ringwise, skilled, etc. But when he fights Marciano he's suddenly over the hill, slow and old.

Louis knew he hadn't done well and gave Walcott rematch and knocked him out. louis was good that way. Ali won close decisions against Young, Norton and Shavers. rather than give them rematches he fought Leon Spinks?!

awesome

That's a hard "pair to beat".!

Gosh damb walcott was good, the way he slips and counters is so efficient, no wasted energy in his movements.

Roubar faz parte da raça humana, hoje e sempre...nessa luta deram Vitória para Louis...mas quem viu ele caindo 2 vezes sabe que ele perdeu

By today’s scoring it would have been a split draw. Back in 1947 Walcott’s 2 knockdown rounds were both scored 10-9. Based on these highlights,which definitely isn’t the whole picture.. I scored it the same as the ref 7-6-2 for Walcott. By today’s scoring I got it 144-141

They are 1 and 1 in my opinion. I think joe Louis was the best textbook skilled heavyweight ever but its hard to train to fight a guy like Jersey Joe because no one fights like that. He was a very unique and cagey fighter and a great technical fighter himself and had a fantastic defense! When you punch like Joe Louis though all bets are off, he could end any fight abruptly.

Joe Louis tried to end it in the first round.

Does anyone know if the full fight is on film somewhere?

Good competition but I get what Joe Louis said about Walcott. He did do a lot of running lol

Marciano knocked Jersey Joe out after Joe knocked him down, with hard left, I think it just made Rocky mad.

15 rounds in those days. Warriors!

the long gong in 1st round it is some magicial) 1:56

I believe I read somewhere that Louis said after that he'd never feel like a champion again if he couldn't beat Jersey Joe after this fight

7/6/2 Walcott with the knockdown s, Jersey Joe was robbed!

Do specific fights and opponents bring out the best in each other? You bet they do. Joe was on fire for this fight; the energy and inspiration running through his bones that night must have been unbelievable. This is pretty much one of the worst match-ups Louis can have, since mobile slick fighters gave Louis a hard time. I think it would have been great if Walcott took the title in this fight, he fought a hell of a fight. However, Louis was notoriously effective in rematches and I believe the odds are Louis would have taken the title back quickly. At least one thing is for sure, which is that poor judging has been around long before the 80's and 90's lol.

Great fight. The crowd cheering is a little annoying lol. Better enjoyed on mute!! Classic war

14:56 Was that a clean punch or was that a pushing type of punch? Definitely knocked Walcott a couple steps back. Looks awkward though

But now that I think about it was that a contender had 2 pretty much knock the champ out in order 2 win

louis left the ring first because he was embarrased i remember hearing, i think he may of even apologised to walcott potentially... i remember hearing something on the lines of that

Walcott was RJJ before there was a RJJ

Timestamps for each round with scoring: 1 1:55 Walcott 2 4:15 Walcott 3 5:19 Louis 4 6:10 Walcott 5 7:24 Even 6 8:00 Louis 7 8:55 Even 8 9:49 Walcott 9 10:55 Even 10 13:50 Louis 11 14:17 Walcott 12 14:46 Walcott 13 15:18 Louis 14 15:46 Louis 15 16:14 Louis 6-6-3

Jersey joe somewhat reminds me of Ali in the way he dances around the ring

Walcott got Robbed.

If this shootage is a "highlights" one, the fight should have been pretty boring... Whatever, none could honestly pretend to be abble to score it, only watching this very very uncomplete film.

walcott won 8 rounds easy.........and 1 round atleast was even. Shoulda been 9-5-1 for JJ Walcott.

Entreprise

This 33 year old Joe stops the crude Marciano in 8

Anyone who hasn’t watched the fight yet care to wager a gentlemanly bet?

joe louis always struggled with dancers....he did better against big hard men that moved straight in.... even billy conn gave joe trouble with his light heavyweight movement and speed... jersey joe did the same muhammad ali, learned his trade off watching sugar ray robinson and jersey joe and it shows... he danced better than the both of them.. joe louis was a phenomenal fighter, hit hard with both hands ...but his left arm was too low....low left hand is fine if you are a dancer...but if you are a forward fighter...the left arm has to be up ...especially nowadays....and ali would have made him pay for that..but that is a different generation.... the older generation used to lean back on the back foot to fight ....nowadays they are more balanced and higher guard... joe hardly used the high left hand guard to block right hands

One of my favorite boxers. The moment his opponent got set he moved to a different angle. He absolutely won this match. Joe was leaving the ring at the end.

How old is mayweather right now? 37..? I believe it was when walcott was 38 years old that he was KOed by marciano twice in a row.

Dats Joe in da black trunks, and dats Joe in da where trunks. Poun fa poun they ain’t a man alive whup ol Joe.

BASED ON THE FOOTAGE SHOWN, JERSY JOE WALCOTT CLEARLY OUT BOXED JOE LOUIS AND KNOCKED HIM DOWN REPEATEDLY WITH STRAIGHT RIGHTS, EVEN THOUGH HE WAS OUT WEIGHED BY 20 POUNDS OR BETTER. BASED ON THE VIDEO JERSY JOE WALCOTT WAS AN INCREDIBLE BOXER PUNCHER AND WAS ROBBED OF THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE.

To me it looks like Walcott won.

Walcott got robbed. Louis won the rematch

Walcott was Jimmy Young with a punch

Joe Louis lost this combat. It's plain to see. This was a robbery.

לפי הקרב נצחון של גרסי שון ילקוט ברור

Ali never thought much of Louis. He was sure he could dance circles around him. Louis seemed not able to cut off the ring and had difficulty with a moving target. He needs to be flat footed to set up his big punches. Walcott let's him think he is set to punch then moves and catches him

Biggest robbery in heavyweight championship history. Walcott won 10 rounds and dropped Louis twice. This was more outrageous than Lewis-holyfield 1.

Walcott won this fight easily. Even Joe Louis admitted it many many times. Had he fought this same fight in the rematch he would have easily won but he thought he needed the knockout to win and abandoned what worked

Louis was a much slower fighter at this stage. Walcott did get robbed.

Yes yes Walcott was the man everyone knew that he gave Louis a boxing lesson

The judges screwed up Walcott. Walcott clearly won!

Joe Louis was used to white fighters. Very few blacks were allowed to fight for titles. Louis had trouble with black fighters with style.

Greatest heavyweights ever; I don't have Louis in the top 3...sorry... Ali, Johnson & Marciano

Sorry but Louis got robbed

Jersey was the best foot mover back then looked to me to be like a outboxer in the way he kept his distance but was more a brawler/ counter puncher he could catch George with some shots from counters but I dont see him doing a jim sense he was a way more advanced then wal and jim was a full outboxer and add jersey wasnt that tough for damage this is where that outdated movement like I always say comes in people will say Louis could beat George yet Jersey footwork was better and jerseys counters was way more all of a sudden like a mike that Louis never could do from 1 pinpoint punch louis would be destroyed way faster then jersey would like I said uptop jersey stance was more like a outboxer which I said mutiple time Louis would need to do to not be destroyed fast he would need to move they said I was wrong I wasnt same as mike would destroy George cause of the same reasons jersey showed counterpunches and fast combos with great aim

Wow, now that was bullshit! Jersey Joe won that convincingly.

... what a robbery...

Highway robbery!

Walcott should be the winner ...

unfair ... walcott won!

Worst decision

Robbery.

Jersey Joe got robbed

Fucking robbery for sure

Jersey Joe was robbed

That fight was stolen from Walcott - Not fair - I am a Joe Louis Fan.

It look like Joe Louis lost every round to me how do they give him the fight I guess box has been corrupt from the beginning Jersey Joel beat his ass every round

Walcott was robbed

Love Joe Louis but he definitely lost this fight lol