Hagler, Holy and Hagler had better chins and skills than over 90% of any British boxers to set foot in the ring! Ali beat Cooper twice who was one of Britain`s greatest heavyweights of all time, (but Cooper did nearly stop him). Ali also beat London and beat Bugner twice (a fighter that beat Cooper). Hagler destroyed Minter and Sibson, but Lewis beat Holyfield.
Khan`s defense and chin were way worse than Errol`s are now, Khan was vastly overrated and kept getting exposed, none of the fighters that have beat Khan would have beat Spence if he met them in their primes accept Canelo, but Spence would have landed more punches on Canelo than Khan did.
I want to see how he responds to his first loss. He just strikes me as one of those boxers who will be diminished by a defeat. I genuinely think he feels he's unbeatable, a strength while winning but the recipe for huge self-doubt when that sense of invulnerability is punctured. Some fighters can just dust themselves down and press on regardless after a setback. I'm not sure Spence is made that way. I'm thinking Don Curry.
Questionable chin. Brooks arm punches seem to buzz him several times. Lartey who is a pillow fisted fighter rocked him badly at the end of a round. His team has pretty much kept him away from punchers. This concerns me. Easy to hit. Very little head movement which leaves him open for the right hand which Brook was landing consistantly. Flat footed. He has yet to fight a guy with pop, hand and foot speed. He has to set his feet before he punches. That is easily exploitable by guys with good movement. Just look what FlIVd did to Canelo because of the difference in foot speed. I like Spence and think hes capable of beating anyone in the division but i dont see this unstoppable machine that many do. Guys like Crawford and Thurman could be really tough matchups for him.
Agree I wanted to see him in with Danny Garcia not saying Garcia would win by any means but I reckon he would've chin checked Spence with a few nice counters.
In comparison, Spence's nipples are somewhat average to other nippples. Where as Pac's head is huge compared to other guys his physicsl size.
I suspect if/when he moves up to have trouble when someone can actually eat his shots and counter. I don't think it will be an inside fighter that ever troubles him.
There are a many pictures of a very young and impoverished Pacquiao with the same disproportionately large head. Have you seen Canelo's head recently? Or Floyd's? Ward and JMM? Their heads have grown to massive proportions.
Problem with that is they all had better chins and skills than 90% of American boxers to ever step foot in a ring too. In fact, probably more like 99% of them, whereas there's no way in hell they had better chins and skills than 99% of British boxers lol. Here's shot Cooper dropping prime Ali (aka Clay) like a sack of potatoes and Cooper was giving away 22lbs that night. And we all know about the shenanigans Dundee pulled in the corner to save his boy's bacon. This content is protected 1-0 Britain I'll give you Hagler over Minter and Simpson, but Hagler was a badass and he is one of the small handful of American fighters that could hang at Brit Level. 1-1 Lewis beat Holyfield x 2 but was robbed blind by the judges. And let's not forget that Holyfield was a walking steroid factory and is without question the biggest juicer of all time. 3-0 Britain + the robbery in the first fight makes it 4-0 and then we get another point for Lewis defeating the biggest juicer of all time. 5-0 Britain
Spence has fought one puncher in his entire career and said puncher was badly weight drained, coming off a brutal beating and a stoppage loss, a nasty eye injury and gruesome surgery to repair it, and they also suffered the exact same injury in their fight against him after Spence viciously headbutted them in round 8 because prior to that moment he was getting his ass paddled royally by a cadaver. Brook KO 67% (weight drained cadaver) Peterson KO 43%- career 140 pounder featherfist Algieri KO 33% - career 140 pounder and was 1-2 in his last 3 fights and is a Paulie level featherfist Bundu KO 32% - 42 year old Paulie level featherfist Van Heerden KO 41% - bum Ocampo KO 57% - bum Lo Greco KO 47% - bum Even Spence admitted that Ocampo had no power lol Spence getting badly hurt by a featherfisted scrub The way he reacted to that punch was downright embarrassing. That's how a six-year old child would react. ''Owwww! That hurt!" lol This content is protected Prime Khan smokes Spence and so do at least half a dozen of the guys Khan fought too.
Could well be but as Joe Rogan pointed out about Lomo that it’s very rare for a boxer to have both things going such as footwork and the fast hands. Floyd and Lomo play by different rules whilst the rest like Spence will be very good at one thing and in any case against Brook who probably was the more technical,skilled guy my memories of Spence was him walking Brook down and inflicting punishment. Believe me,I know I’m right in this that Spence on the eye test alone is actually very good and has way more left to show us. Perhaps even more troubling is that he appears to be a really great guy,not scared of anyone and called Thurman,Porter and Garcia so lame for scrambling over each other just to fight other to the point where those three were turning up WWE style to each other fights whilst at Spences last fight,not one of those three turned up to shout at Spence WWE style l9l
There are pics of a young Spence with puffy nips too. And until Spence moves up 8 divisions knocking out heavyweight STFU about him doing PED's. Especially if your only so called evidence is his nipples.......WIERDO!