Sugar Ray Leonard vs Carlos Palomino

You don`t think Fury`s height and reach is an advantage for him? Fury`s whole style is based around his reach, it was a miracle that Usyk beat him, he look like a child fighting a man in that fight, what about Hearns v Duran?

 

Ray and Willfed are roughly the same size. Fury is six inches taller and weighs forty pounds more. Apples and oranges really.

 

Ray had a four inch reach advantage and it was a cagey fight fought on the outside.

 

That's where he's at this month.

 

How could you call Usyk beating Fury a miracle when the fight was basically even money and the experts split? That's anything but a miracle.

 

Whoa........so if the fighter with the shorter reach can get the fight inside the longer reach of the opponent is no longer an advantage?

Do you think fighters with short reaches haven't spent their boxing life working on skills and styles to overcome that shorter reach and turn it into an advantage?

Why isn't boxing dominated by tall stringbeans?

Did Tyson ever have a reach advantage? How many defenses did he have where he had the longer reach? How did he win all these fights? What fights did he lose that can be majorly attributed to reach?

The answers to some of those questions above will enlighten you Mark.........i hope!

 

Leonard would be in and out side to side using his quickness, mobility and ring IQ. Carlos would apply pressure zeroing in on Ray's body. Ray stays 1 or 2 steps ahead of Palomino all nite.
Leonard by UD

 

It makes life more difficult and it made Tyson look human at heavyweight, no fighter with Tyson`s reach would have stood a chance against him.

 

He had to get past that long jab, which was so difficult.

 

Has there even been a top shelf heavyweight around 215 plus with Tyson's reach?

 

Thousands of fighters have successfully got past long left jabs. It's hardly some miracle Mark. There's a certain ring to that, "Miracle Mark"!

There's a little bit more to boxing than a long reach and excellent jab. Drink Mark, drink.