Pernell Whittaker - How do you beat him.

All I can think of, off the top of my head, is throw a few head shots to set up body shots.

 

Benny Leonard, off the back foot and make Pernell come to you.

Not guaranteed but its an idea......;O)

 

Wow, that was deep.

 

Jose Luis Ramirez; the strategy being get your promoter to pay Mendoza (WBA El Presidente) to make sure that a Mexican unification fight happens with Chavez, by pressuring judges.

 

:good

That was a real shocker!!!

 

Tall quick guy who can fight good at range. I always thought Tito would have given Pea problems even in his prime, because of his height and his quick jab. Even though Tito was somewhat one dimensional the styles would have created a bad fight for Tito even in his prime.

 

Duran would be my pick

How would he do it, well with difficulty, 1st things 1st is you need to have an area where you are better than whitaker which isn't easy, he was a master at all ranges, however i'm sure we can all agree duran was better than whitaker on the inside if he could get there. Against duran whitaker i envisage would use a lot of lateral movement and fighting behind his jab.

So the 1st thing that would be needed would be to have someone who could get inside the jab, duran is the perfect candidate for the job, he can do this in quite a lot of different ways, his ability to feint to get inside is top notch but he also has another option open to him, his swarming sort of style he used so effctively to get inside buchanan, he also had the footspeed to be able to do so, he need to mix up the ways he was looking to come inside, so whitaker cannot get a read on him and begin to time his approaches ad counter him.

Once inside pea is no slouch, in fact he's one of the best inside fighters i've ever seen, but duran was better, he was nearly as proficient defensively and was stronger, also his work to the body and just general ability on the inside was better. For me duran has got the ability to take the fight inside often enough and do enough work whilst there to be able to take a tight UD or SD over pea, i can see an argument for pernell winning but i favour duran slightly

Another intersting fight IMO would be the young robinson who beat agnott v whitaker, i think he may be able to beat whitaker though i am not certain of it as robinson was still pretty green, but would have a lot of physical advantages for pea to overcome

 

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just buy off the judges

 

swarm him like hell, with a lot of rough housing and cut off the ring.

Still probably won't work

 

Could Hearns make 135??

;O)