How would you beat Paul Williams?

There are two ways to beat Paul Williams. First, by speed. Any fast good slick boxer will destroy Williams. Second, a strong guy with a chin, who has a brain to get inside and destroy that skinny body, like Cotto will do. If Nate Campbell was bigger, he would wack that Jimmy walker looking body, and knock Williams out. Williams has already been outboxed and cut up bad by a little tiny Quintana.

Its only a matter of time for a good solid fighter to destroy Williams and shatter all the illusions his funny loving fans have for him. But, that Goosen promoter of his will do his best to protect him and keep that illusion going for as long as he can.

 

i would ask quintana. PW is not the real deal, people are desperate for another tommy hearns and believe me PW aint that good. He beat an old and inactive winky and now people are talkin about him challenging unbeaten mw and lhw fighters...what the ****

 

quintana did it so iam sure it will happen again sooner or later, by no means am i down playing quintana but hes not top tier.

 

Lots of head movement. Slide inside the jab (not the most impossible task considering Paul likes a closet fight as opposed to being on the outside like his physical advantages would tell you) and constantly move to the left to stay away from his powerful right hands.

Pressure. You have to push the fight towards PWill. If you give him the proper space he'll keep you at a nice distance away from just barely being away to hit him. Quintana outboxed him because he rushed Williams from the start and Paul freaked out on top of lots of angles while doing it.
Another thing of note is that combinations while pressuring. Paul Williams has a tendency to stop punching as he's backing out of a combination from hell with his hands down. Catching him while he back's out is the way to go. Winky had his best moments because of this huge mistake from Williams.

Beat that body like a drum! Beating up on his body will slow down his workrate and he won't be able to throw as many punches and move as much. Leaving him being a hittable tree to axe down.

Aim for that eye! The stitches would be a nice target above the eye to open up. A cut eye would take away from Paul's confidence if everything else is going your way. Paul looked incredibly worried during Winky's first round because of the hard shots he managed to pull off. He wasn't smiling and seemed a bit distraught, but eventually found his space and put that smile back on.

YOU NEED A DECENT CHIN! Without a good chin...one punch might take your ass out :-(

Great punching power! If you can get Williams respect, he'll be much more reluctant to to throw as many punches because he'll leave himself open.

Who can do it?

Shane Mosley, James Kirkland, Kelly Pavlik, Arthur Abraham, Miguel Cotto (if he pressures Williams and not the other way around), Santos, Sergio Martinez, Joe Calzaghe, B-Hop, Joshua Clottey (a more active version of Wright).

 

Dawson would annihilate Paul Williams, that wouldn't even be a fair matchup, and so would Kessler, Lucian Bute, Andre Dirrell, Anthony Dirrell, etc. Dawson would be all wrong for Paul Williams, he does everything Paul Willaims does except 2X better, although Willaims does have a longer reach, and better stamina.

 

Why at a catchweight, just have the fight at 175.

 

im just reporting what chad dawson said in the interview

 

I think the problem in fighting Williams was something that Wink touched on after the fight. I saw chances to counter, but with those long arms I just couldnt get'm. I think that it the problem with trying to counter him all night.

I think that a long rangy fighter like Pavlik or Taylor would give Williams some trouble. I know the so-called experts say that Williams dont fight tall, but that isnt really true. Paul will fight on the inside more then he has to BUT on the inside for him is still long range for most of the guys that he fights

 

thats why i'm saying you gotta make him overreach. Winky Wright has his feet quite set but if you can make PW feel like he's out of range and make him reach forward it will throw him off and leave him open.

Another way to beat him is to overpower him which is what i think Pavlik vs Williams might come down to. However at 147 and 154 thats not hapenning.

 

Paul is a great fighter for boxing, A breathe of fresh air is what he is.

I don't see anybody stopping or outworking him **** I even think Joe would catch his first L.

Paul is more experienced than Kessler and shits on Lacy, Hop was bamboozled by Joe and the same thing will happen is he fought Paul and Roy? cmon man....

At the moment, I can't name 1 boxer from 147-160 who will stop Paul.

 

At this stage in PW's career anything above 160/168lbs is suicide.
147-160 is his comfort zone. (Which is crazy in itself)

 

you'd probably have to pull out a gun in the ring to stop him

 

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Guys, the reason why Wink couldn't counter Williams is because of lack of lateral movement.

He's already been beaten...soundly.

Quintana used good lateral movement and countered him all night long.

The blueprint is there...Floyd would be able to beat him soundly

Sergio Martinez would also be able to beat him at 154.

 

Yet but your not going to be in range even after he over reach the target. Even when talking about the top middleweights, they would be giving up a huge reach advantage. Pavlik 7 inches or 17cm and AA 10 inches or 25 cm...that is alot. Not to mention that Williams has much faster hands then both. I think that unless those fighters are able to hurt Williams they would both lose to Williams.

On the flipside we have seen Williams in his lost not be active, and not do much, if that williams shows up he would lost to both Pavlik and AA.