He does nothing A+, but he's a jack of all trades, good handspeed, nearly top class, solid power, good boxing skills, good work rate , good chin, i think his only great factor is his heart. Very tough guy to beat.
True. His athleticism makes up for his somewhat crude offense sometimes. Too bad his ring IQ also seems low.
Ring mentality rather than IQ is bad. You put him under consistent pressure at a high enough workrate he starts to lose focus giving into fatique (evident in 2nd Pacquiao fight) Whilst against Provo he went full (can't say this word because i'll be get banned atsch)
Highly (Selassie) Really admire his willingness to fight anyone A few years back people were saying he was ducking Khan and was a dirty fighter who constantly butte de head He's totally turned that around Great guy, brave warrior, respect him Highly (Selassie)
Great chin - No TB has a cast Iron chin . No other current WW today could have absorbed those hellacious haymakers from Ruslan the way Bradley did . Any other WW would have been LIGHTS OUT .
...by evaluating his ability comparative to others under the rubric of his weight class and those immediately adjacent?
lopez is a real welterweight does that make him automatically good? plenty of fighters who are not natural ww who are levels above those who are natural ww
What constitutes a "real welterweight", though? :think Of the 147lb top fifteen, maybe a third or less are "real welterweights" in the sense of having campaigned there more than half (or hell, even a quarter) of their career. Mayweather was prime at 130lbs. Pacquiao debuted at light fly. Marquez was a career featherweight. Maidana's first 82% of bouts were fought at light welter. Khan spent years at lightweight. Bradley himself was a light welterweight from 2006 until 2011 and made his name there. Rios was champ at lightweight. Alexander, another who weighed 140lbs for most of his career. Malignaggi? Guerrero? Gavin? All moved up from lighter divisions, in some cases several. The only top 15ish welterweights you could say are "real" welterweights are Thurman, Brook, Porter, Chaves, and Bundu.