The effect of a good jab is something that always, in my experience, is much more easy to appreciate watching a fight live. I saw Holyfield fight live three times, and Larry Holmes once (in his old-age comeback) and also George Foreman (again, old-age George) and watched all of those fights later videotaped from TV and the jab just doesn't translate the way it does live. You see the sweat fly, you see the expression on the hit fighter's face, you see how it makes him reconsider the distance and whether he wants to try to make a move when he knows it is waiting for him again. Completely different live.
what i appreciated most about seeing great fighters live in the flesh so to speak is just to see their abilities up close and personal. how amazingly fast roy jones really was...how precise and accurate andre ward is with every move he makes....how pernell whitaker was just pure genius in the ring. i've seen plenty...but those are the guys that stick out the most to me.
Wow professor....must be nice to have dropped 20K going to fights. Best fight I saw live was Holyfield vs Sherwin Williams and that was only because my cousin worked in the resort and got me tickets 1/2 price. Still though, 55 each and I was 75 feet away and could hardly tell if the punches were landing or missing. To get close enough to judge handspeed would have been 200 at half price. You mustve spent 5K see see Jones Jr close enough to judge. :yep:yep:yep
While I wholly agree with Saint Pat that see a fight on tv is better because you can actually see WTF is going on...... I envy the professor for being ringside at Jones, Whitakers and Wards fights. Hey professor.....whats your real name???? Jack Nicholson? Tiger Woods? Al Bernstein?:roll::roll::roll:
living in cali makes it easier. i went to all of those fights for free and got paid to be at some. i've met holyfield, never got to see him fight. i'll see sherman williams this weekend though. he's fighting a local prospect (gerald 'el gallo negro' washington) with 7 fights.
The other thing is that I have been at three heavyweight championship fight: Tyson-Spinks (all 89 seconds) Holyfield-Cooper Holyfield-Bean Obviously only one of those was a 'superfight' showdown (the one that was shortest and least competitive, haha), but they have this in common ... and you cannot appreciate this without experiencing it live IMO: There is no more electricity at any sporting event in the world, no more tension, no more excitement that you can actually viscerally FEEL in the air and in your gut that rivals that moment before the bell and those first few moments after the bell rings at a heavyweight championship fight. Football (or futbol), baseball, basketball, hockey, you name it -- in no other sport can it end in the blink of an eye, in that first exchange, like it can in boxing. As a fight goes on you get settled in and it can still end in an instant, but that moment leading up to the first punch, the first exchange, it's like plugging into an electric socket. You can FEEL it.
I love to watch Vlad's footwork, jab, hook, hook off the jab, right hand, defense, stamina, he is a smooth fighter who is extremely talented. I also love to watch Vitali Klitschko fight, he has the highest KO percentage of any heavyweight champion in boxing history. Void is boring as Hell.............
I like seeing a good fighter make a "great" fighter look like a bumbling amatuer: Winky Wright vs Felix Trinidad
Agree with this. Saw Corrales-Mayweather live. You could literally see the accuracy (and speed) of Mayweather's punches changing Diego's mindset. Especially the straight shots to the stomach. Same with Tyson-Lewis. You could 'feel' how hard those jabs were.
