Fighters that reminded you of Pernell Whitaker

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  1. dougemerypm

    dougemerypm Active Member Full Member

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    Don't mistake Crawford "in the ring" and Crawford "out of the ring." Inside the ring he is all business and merciless. Outside he is great with the community, has actually gone to Africa multiple times with a former teacher to assist with getting small villages improved, and built a gym that he allows underprivileged youth to use for basketball, football and boxing training. He is quiet and soft spoken at boxing events and is more than willing to help with our local boxing programs
     
  2. RacingBeat

    RacingBeat Casual lives matter Full Member

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    How bout the lefty Casamoyer
     
  3. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    Ivan Calderon

    Great shout with Moreno (very much an underrated boxer).
     
  4. titanic

    titanic Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Sweet Pea is one and only. Nobody is close to his fighting ways.
     
  5. Flo_Raiden

    Flo_Raiden Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    True there's only one Sweet Pea, just like how there's only one Ali and one Mayweather. Doesn't mean there aren't fighters that imitated or fought like them.
     
  6. titanic

    titanic Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Like who?
     
  7. Flo_Raiden

    Flo_Raiden Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    There's been plenty of fighters that took their style from another great fighter, whether they used it poorly or made good use of it. Back then there's been boxers trying to be like Ali such as Nino LaRocca, James Tillis, Howard Davis Jr., Naseem Hamed. Nowadays boxers are trying to be more like Mayweather with his shoulder roll technique.
     
  8. titanic

    titanic Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Im talking Sweet Pea, the thread is Pernell not Ali or Mayweather.
     
  9. MrFoFody

    MrFoFody Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Randall "Tex" Cobb
     
  10. Flo_Raiden

    Flo_Raiden Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    My mistake, thought you were asking about what guys mimic Ali and Mayweather from my last response.
    If you were asking what fighters imitated or fought similar to Pernell there was already some good examples on this thread such as Moreno, Calderon, Farmer, etc. They're not an exact copy of Pernell but you can tell that they took some influences from his style.
     
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  11. Limerickbox

    Limerickbox Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I see Tevin Farmer like a poor mans Whittaker.
     
  12. Hookie

    Hookie Affeldt... Referee, Judge, and Timekeeper Full Member

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    Sometimes.
     
  13. Hookie

    Hookie Affeldt... Referee, Judge, and Timekeeper Full Member

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    Excellent post
     
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