Jack Sharkey vs Johnny_B

Mate he thinks he'd knock out Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano.

Just enjoy how funny he is.

 

The crucial difference being that sparring can never replace real fight experience due to head gear and that pros are trying to take your head off with money on the line. Plus you admitted it's mostly light sparring with friends who are obviously not throwing with bad intentions.

 

Lmao

 

Sharkey is a good heavyweight for his era. He had some defense and he had a decent hook, in fact the left hand looked more natural than his right so he might have been left handed and fighting out of a right hand stance. He did forget to jab at times, lunging/leaping in with his hook and he often "walked" with his right hand meaning he brought his right foot forward when he threw his right hand. You are not the only young boxer today who would look at Sharkey and not be impressed. He does a lot of things that trainers don't want their fighters to do.

I have no idea what your boxing ability is, but I'd take a world class amateur like Majidov, Hrgovic, Joyce, etc. to beat Sharkey in their first pro fight. There is a poster who wanted you to show video of yourself and break down video of Sharkey, don't bother, if you could show video of Evander Holyfield and say it was you, he'd have no idea if the video showed correct technique or not. That poster knows nothing about boxing mechanics. This is a good thread, it makes the Bert Sugar repeaters think, whether they want to or not. LOL and it angers them because they don't understand why you're not in awe of a guy they read about...

 

Would you take any of your amateurs in the gym, particularly those who only spar and don't fight, to beat Sharkey?

 

Do you see any of these guys beating Ali, Foreman, Liston, Tyson, Bowe, Lewis ?!?
Cause I don't.

 

90's Foreman was no relic, he'd create havoc and probably beat everyone in Sharkey's era.
And besides that, he still won due to a lucky punch in the last round and was dominated up until that point.

 

I never said I'd KO those guys.

 

Do you think you would?

 

Thank you sir. I have nothing against the old timers, they achieved great things in their era, but that doesn't mean they could replicate that in other eras. Anyone who thinks boxers like Sharkey stand a chance against guys like Ali and Tyson is delusional

 

He was a relic. He was a running joke who was a shadow of his former self. Yet he is able to stand in front of the World Champion throwing slow punch after slow punch until one bounces him off the canvas.

 

Lol we aren't talking about Tyson is Ali, we're talking about a guy who quit boxing when he was 16 who think he could knock him out.

 

Only if I could land a perfect punch on them, which is very hard, so my odds are small.

 

If Moorer would have put aside his ego and he wouldn't have stayed to trade with Foreman, he'd have won that fight at a canter.
And the "relic" Foreman managed to go the distance with a prime roided Holyfield, so that should tell you something.