Which fighters have the best reaction speed in Boxing.

Juan manuel Marquez

 

I don't know why rigo is on the list but you left out donaire, he sees everything and capitilizes on fighters mistakes, which is why he is such as accurate fast powerful counterpuncher.

I got Ward, Floyd, Donaire, Marquez, and Martinez

 

How do you not put Jones in this with the traps that man use to set in the ring ?

 

Rigondeaux deserves to be there. If you ever watch him fight, you'd know why. I'd say Donaire's reflexes are good also though. He needs to stop putting his hands to his side though and showboating because his reflexes don't prevent him from getting popped in the face

 

all fighters get hit, he doesn't get hit that much, he puts way worse of beating on his opponents than they put on him.

 

yeah I know, but I'm saying I believe he overestimates his reaction speed. He was trying to show off to Mathebula and come in with his hands down and Mathebula was tagging him repeatedly

 

What's so great about Gamboa's reaction speed, he just throws flurries and flurries of punches nonstop disregarding his defense and makes his opponents become gun shy. I dont think we've seen anything special about his reaction speed.

 

Donaires are obviously crazy good - the way in which he sees a gap and then shoves a punch through it are ridiculous. Look at what he did to Vic for an example.

 

What gets me about Floyd is you can tell his reaction time has slowed, and he's still above pretty much everybody, with only a few guys like Ward being arguably above him. I don't feel Dawson has bad reaction time. I think he does certain things that are predictable when he reacts though.

I think Ward went in knowing he has that tendency to start to react by dipping low and to his left and deliberately worked on cuing him to do it while setting himself so that he could hammer down on him with the left hook in that weird trajectory that would allow him to take full advantage of the predictability. Dawson is a lazy general by nature but when he's sharp, he does roll and defend like someone with good reaction time, the way that I remember him anyway. Then again, maybe if I went back and watched him specifically to judge his reaction time, I'd see it differently. :conf

 

I don't think any of these fighters you listed are great because of reaction time, and none of the ones you listed will not be great because of lack thereof.

It isn't just reaction time, it's skill, muscle memory, training, gameplan, feinting etc

Ward wasn't just faster than Dawson, he feinted, took away angles, stopped Dawson from ducking low by aiming is right-hand at his solar plexus instead of his chin, then came around with the left hook etc

You can't just react, you have to be proactive. Look how many times Mayweather will micro-twitch, flinch, and feint away and pull his head back from punches that don't actually come, the same with Ward, he is always prepared to dodge away or roll a punch, it makes it hard to catch him unawares and it means it's difficult to decide when to actually throw a punch at him because you know he is prepared to counter it.

 

Reaction speed is not everything.

Dirrell blows all of those people out of the water... and he still is not great.

 

Pernell....

 

Rjj