***The List Thread*** Your Top 5....

How could I forget about the man that created his own punch called the Candy Cane! I just watched the first few clips on the Goat vs Lamotta 1. This only gives you a sneak peak of the most famous body punch of all time with the exact motion of a bent candycane on top and driven straight down to the liver. McCallum tried, Bernard tried, but no one in history could quite duplicate the purest, meanest and sweetest of them all...GOAT!

 

thoughts on Evander Holyfield?

Evander's style was underated, he would catch your punches and it was like you had a gun aimed at you and you were the one pulling the trigger lol great example of defense leading into offense. He would use his power hand on Defence as a way to catch and twist an opponents jab or straight. I've been on a huge Ray Robinson kick as of late by watching some old fights, and noticed Ray used this as well. But I don't recall anyone that could use that twist as sonar like Holyfield did. Best example was the Buster fight. Catch, catch, twist, roll off the missed uppercut n counter pancake.

Evander was just a freak, who unifies an entire division in their first 18 fights? then moves up to HW and unifies that division like 6 fights later lol doesnt sound like someone who would stick around till 46

 

how many 40+ fat dude's that barely train and can still outbox pretty much most fighters do you know? lol

Toney is the epitomy of slickness

 

a short clip just gives you a sneak peak of the candy cane!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUYhjX64pDo&feature=channel_page

 

best olympic team?

I was listening to an interview with pea and mark breland talking about the olympics and that 84 class of US Olympians were freaks of nature. I know 76 was regarded as the best ever because the Soviet Union was competing against Ray Leonard, Michael & Leon Spinks etc., but 84 had the best top to bottom imo: Evander, Breland, Sweet Pea, Frank Tate, Biggs, Virgil & Henry Tillman and like 3 other medalists (almost not even FAIR)! You could just see especially from Sweet Pea and Evander that the pro ranks were in trouble once those two took off the head gear.

 

Oh and how could I forget the guy who was voted by his teammates as the best one of the bunch back in 84 - Meldric Taylor lol! That was like bringing a baseball bat to a pillow fight from top to bottom. Unfortunately we'll never see that again from this new scoring system and the present state of boxing from the pros and retro back to the amateurs :-(

 

I think Toney at 20 percent is better then most but that being said he never lived up to his full 100 percent potential. Toney didn't need footwork because he could lean on the ropes and work his slip game with his shoulder roll. Toney had a ton of outside the ring problems and should of had a great "er" career then he had but I still don't see nothing in boxing today that can slip a punch like he could (lil Floyd aside)

 

the professional
sweet science
four kings
the fight
dark trade

probabily better ones out there i haven't read

 

top 5 active irish fighters

Dunne
McClosky
Lee
Macklin
Duddy