Monstrous Punchers Who Lack Punching Setup Abilities?

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  1. OP_TheJawBreaker

    OP_TheJawBreaker NOBODY hit like that guy! Full Member

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    What can you name a very hard puncher who always lack the ability to setup their punches? In fact, this is the reason why they couldn't knock his opponent out. Raw power is a pretty cool thing, but the end of the day, amazing setup to the chin is what create brutal one punch knockouts. If I were to name one who lack this ability, the first that comes in mind his Samuel Peter. Once he land a really good punch, look what happen to Williams. Scary knockout ngl. Merqui Sosa is another good mention.
     
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  2. Flash24

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    Earnie Shavers is the poster child for this.
     
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  3. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Good post however Peter caught Toney flush several times he just couldn`t put him down.
     
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  4. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Caught Holmes good enough.
     
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    Flash24 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    But that's the point. He caught Holmes with a shot out the blue.
    But it wasn't set up. Couldn't finish when he had the chance.
     
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  6. cross_trainer

    cross_trainer Liston was good, but no "Tire Iron" Jones Full Member

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    Probably a lot of really scary journeyman punchers.
     
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  7. GOAT Primo Carnera

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    Its James "Bonecrusher" Smith.

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  8. OP_TheJawBreaker

    OP_TheJawBreaker NOBODY hit like that guy! Full Member

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    I really don't buy the fact that it's the hardest punch he ever threw. I really hate Shavers performance that night, throwing very telegraphic overhand rights again and again and again and again and pretty much missing every single one of them. But somehow, out of nowhere Shavers decided to throw a very short compact punch that finally land on Holmes chin and did a lot of damage. Sadly, what did he do? He didn't learn his lesson. He proceeds to throw more telegraphic overhand rights than gassed out by missing all of them.

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    Doesn't it frustrates the living **** outta you guys?
     
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  9. Bronze Tiger

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    Emanuel Steward could have done wonders with Sam Peter
     
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  10. Entaowed

    Entaowed Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    Sure, & even other punches he missed that night *might* have been harder if they laned flush-or at all.
    But how can you call the one he landed very short & compact?
    He stepped into it effectively to close the distance, but it was not a shot that just traveled a few inches-it was a bolo/haymaker from Hell. A big windup punch that finally paid off.
     
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  11. OP_TheJawBreaker

    OP_TheJawBreaker NOBODY hit like that guy! Full Member

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    I find the punch way shorter than all of those wild haymakers that he threw throughout the whole fight.
     
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  12. ETM

    ETM I thought I did enough to win. Full Member

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  13. Entaowed

    Entaowed Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    I think you believe that because he both closed the distance & Holmes' face interrupted the blow.
    But it was a long, stepping forward, arcing overhand right.
    It was nothing like say the Suzie Q right that pole-axed Walcott.
    While there are even shorter punches than that-a la Bruce Lee...

    Shavers basically punched Holmes so hard he died & then like a scale whirring around past or a zero pinball machine which goes to "tilt" was reincarnated when he hit the canvas.
    Maybe that is why he has aged so well for a fighter-in the ring later & out of it-he is really only 42 now.
     
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