Breaking Down Alexis Arguello

One of the sweetest righthands ever-straight and precise. I dont think i ever saw him throw a wild punch .
A pleasure to watch.
Even past his best the way he timed Costello with the righthand was beauty.

 

I think he had the frame of a middleweight, and the musculature too. I think Bob Foster should have been a heavyweight, Hearns a light heavyweight, and Saddler a welter.

 

It’s a daft argument you are using here.

To try to diminish a fighters record at a weight because of their size,in the era of same day weigh ins?

Should we applaud guys who move up to get obliterated? And everybody weighs differently.There is no hard and fast rule on height,or muscle,or leg size or any of that nonsense.

 

Because they had ridiculous advantages and it was as unfair as having a kid fight an adult or a man fight a woman. It showcased one of the glaring flaws of the weightclass system. It's set up to make sure that things are fair and so people are all fighting guys roughly their own size. What about Hearns vs Duran or Cuevas looks fair to you? What ****ing chance did Dick Tiger realistically have against Bob Foster?

 

Oh, then you are the same size as Guillermo Jones. Tell me, do you think he was more suited to being a welterweight where he spent his early twenties or a heavyweight where he is now?

 

I'm I the only one who thinks the circumstances behind Arguello's death were iffy?

 

You're calling that a bad style match up? Their style had **** all to do with it. It was having a foot of reach on their opponents and being able to hit them from across the ring with nothing coming back that decided those bouts before a punch was ever thrown. They had about as much legitimacy as that Mayweather farce the other day. Does this look like a bad style match up? Or does it look like a huge guy beating up a little guy?

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Duran, Tyson, Qawi, Pacquiao, Armstrong, Walker overcoming those humongous size disadvantages is some of the most heroic boxing of all time. Those guys should get all the credit they usually do plus all the credit these size cheats get on top of it.

Hearns wasn't a bad style match up for anybody. Put him against guys nearer his own size (Leonard, Hagler, Barkley) and they often ****ed him up. Even Kinchen had him on ***** street.

Are Arguello, Saddler, Hearns, and Foster all time great punchers, or do they just punch average for the division they should be in? At welterweight Hearns was a monster, at middleweight he was tough, but at light heavyweight he was nothing special. Ditto for Foster. Whenever he fought someone his own size they laughed at his power and slapped him around.

 

It was me my man. I PM'd Rumsfeld to move this over to classic but have received no response so far.