**Fighters with superhuman gifts and talent**

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  1. joebojoejoeson

    joebojoejoeson Member banned Full Member

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    George Foreman had a great chin, great physical strength, great durability and great punching power all without using steroids or other PED's.
     
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    Naz had super human power and probably the most akward fighter ive ever seen in the ring.
     
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  3. Flo_Raiden

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    Never tested positive nor ever proven. Steroids also doesn’t give you speed or power.

    I have no interest in turning this thread into another Pacquiao PED accusation because frankly it’s old and tiresome. Pacquiao was clearly a special fighter and a gifted athlete and he fits the criteria in this thread.
     
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  4. m.s.

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    Thomas Hearns with his height, freakishly long reach,lightning speed, lazer focus, and atomic right hand.
     
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    Lawrence Okolie has superoctopus abilities to get his long, skinny arms down sewers to retrieve cricket balls that rolled in.
     
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    Sugar Ray Leonard
     
  7. Brighton bomber

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    Foreman - Power was insane, which took him from first stepping into the ring to Olympic gold inside 2 years a feat we'll probably never see repeated.

    Hamed - Power, flexibility, decent chin too.

    Hearns - His height, his reach, combined with his speed an frightening power was unique.

    Tyson - Speed, power, chin he had it all really.

    RJJ - Like Tyson the full package, looked super human at times.

    Toney - Tremendously gifted fighter with amazing technique but his chin was incredible not many middleweights could go in with hard hitting heavyweights and still not get dropped.

    Hagler - Chin like Toney was just unnaturally impervious to punches, had a chin of vibranium.

    Pac - Speed, power, insane work rate.

    Calzaghe - Limitless stamina and endurance would just overwhelm opponents with his work rate combined with his speed.

    Whitaker - Reflexes and defense were supernatural, he could probably walk in the rain and not get wet he was that hard to hit.
     
  8. PIPO23

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    So are the Mehikanos, Merikano and Britanos. When Pac does it foo acts like it's the end of the world. Like he the only one on that juice. Dont act y'all squeaky clean now.Stop the hypocrisy!!
     
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  9. Furey

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    Roy Jones in his pomp simply was superhuman.

    Naz had ridiculously freakish power for a man of his size... hit far too hard for his own hands.

    The Hearns right hand. The Wilder right hand.

    Chris Eubank Snr's chin.
     
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    How could I forget Eubank's chin, the shots he took of Thompson were crazy. Talking of Thompson his ability to be on the brink of defeat and turn a fight around with one punch was always shocking.

    Froch too had a ridiculous ability to take punches, those shots off Pascal and Groves were bonkers.
     
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    Joe calzaghe

    Speed and stamina
    Yes he had some power early on before hand trouble and had a solid chin

    However, his insane stamina and fast hands made him an absolute nightmare to beat. He was an extremely difficult fighter to beat on points due to his workload
     
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    Was going to say Valuev, but superhuman movie-star looks only gets you so far.
     
  13. Furey

    Furey EST & REG 2009 Full Member

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    Both Eubank and Froch had a serious set of whiskers on them.

    That's one fantasy fight you know without any shadow of a doubt is going the full 12 rounds lol
     
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    Julian Jackson. He had OTHERWORLDLY power.
     
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    robert ungurean Богдан Philadelphia Full Member

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    Holmes - jab
    Saad Muhammad - toughness
    Ali - chin