Overrated Punchers

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  1. salsanchezfan

    salsanchezfan Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Gerrie Coetzee- Back in the day the pundits talked about his "bionic" right. It was a great bit of propaganda really. One immediately thinks that speaks to some superhuman power but all it actually refers to is the sheer amount of operations he'd had on that hand and how some knuckles had by then been fused together. Not much more to it than that.
     
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  2. The Phenom

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  3. ChrisJS

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    Jeff Lacy, Vitali Klit, come straight to mind.
     
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    Toney F*** U Boxing junkie Full Member

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  5. George forearm

    George forearm The forearm of George Full Member

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    At feather weight definitely I wouldn't say he was over rated at super bantam though
     
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  6. dinovelvet

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    Thats a negative :nonono
     
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  7. salsanchezfan

    salsanchezfan Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I would. He almost never took guys out with one shot, instead simply beating guys down with a blizzard of combinations. You hit anyone THAT many times, they're going to go down.

    Not for a moment suggesting he had featherfists, but he's not exactly the Julian Jackson of his division either, as his KO percentage would suggest.
     
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  8. McGrain

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    Ike Williams.

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  9. VVMM

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    Smith destroyed Witherspoon in the first round and Witherspoon had good chin.The over the hill Smith could destroy
    Everett Martin but Martin could go the distance with Wladimir Klitschko or the old Foreman .Ask Ribalta about Smith's
    punching power ! Overraed ? Sure...
     
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  10. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft He Who Saw The Deep Full Member

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    Is that coz you think his power is an attritional thing, or because he doesn't have the names/percentage/bodies to back it up?
     
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  11. klompton2

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    Shavers and Cleveland Williams.
     
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  12. Bujia

    Bujia Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Said it for years. Only seems to be overrated here, though. I blame Manassa.
     
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  13. McGrain

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  14. McGrain

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    Yeah, he just doesn't have knockouts conducive to his rating as a puncher.
     
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  15. Dubblechin

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    Jose Ribalta went the distance with Smith and lost a split decision. Why should I ask him?

    And Bigfoot Martin was stopped a dozen times. Martin was stopped in two by Damiani the fight before Smith.

    You're overrating Smith's power. He had a ko percentage around 50 percent (62 fights, 32 knockouts).
     
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