Boxing Anomalies: Pernell Whitaker vs Juan Nazario

Pernell could be a vicious puncher at times. His style kind of disguised that.

 

Oh well you could just have dumped her and find a girl with big naturals

 

Actually, at 135 he showed himself to be a pretty solid puncher.

Consider:
-He brutally floored Roger Mayweather in the first round of their fight.
-He floored and beat the **** out of Haugen, who had never before been down I believe.
-He landed some big right hooks on Jose Luis Ramirez and discouraged him from coming forward in their rematch, allowing Whitaker to dominate the fight.
-He gave Jorge Paez a brutal body beating.

 

Definitely an anomaly in the count

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Most relatively light punching fighterrs that have great accuracy have some nice stoppages of B level and lower opposition.Whitaker had power that was more on Buchanan sort of leve, rather than true pillow fisted fighters like Locche or Ottke(who has the mundine KO ).

Nazario got tagged hard by a quality shot before he had time to settle in and get used to Whitaker's punchpicking.

 

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Pernell Whitaker fooled the boxing world for years, probably. My guess is that he had Tyson quality power at lightweight but decided to just go rounds and outbox everyone and keep his hidden weapon locked in the closet.

Really? Nah

Punching power is something that cannot be explained. Some fighters out there have beautiful technique when they deliver punches but nothing happens when they land. Hopkins is a great example. He's got a superb arsenal of punches and he also has very good balance. He's virtually flawless when it comes to the technical aspect of punching. For some reason he doesn't have Jackson or McClellan power, as good as he is techincally. They say that power comes from the legs as well as the shoulders.

Nobody on this forum can truely explain things to get an awnser.

 

****, Sweet Pea. He'll know the awnser on punching power. Everything he comes up with on here is gospel. Just the very man we need to get a correct awnser, Popkins.

 

Maybe another education-by-committee companion piece to this thread is called for? http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=182602 :think

 

The fight was on the same card as Meldrick Taylor vs Primo Ramos, and Hector Camacho vs Tony Baltazar. Both of the preceding fights were lacking in action, and I can remember Larry Merchant thanking heavens that he didn't have to sit through another 12 rounds after Pernell stopped Nazario in 1.

My take on the outcome, was that it was a very good performance by whitaker, but I'mnot about to chalk it up as Pernell being a hard hitter, nor Nazario being glass chinned. I think it was one of those freak cases where one man cought the other at the perfect time from the right angle, and with the right shot. It was sort of like Nunn's KO of Kalambay - a devastating KO, but not really a true reflection of what type of fighter either man really was...

 

Pernell was fast and accurate.

He had that slick defensive style but he would at times stand his ground. Well taht night he stood his ground and just landed a shot righ on the button

 

A nowhere near prime Pea, at welterweight, slaughtered Dio Hurtado (who was undefeated, prime, and has since proven to have a good though not cast-iron chin) basically in a single round.

 

It was a fully torqued punch that landed on the point of the chin when Nazario was coming forward. These things happen.

 

{ea was fast, accurate and brutal when he had an opponent hurt.

Sometimes you only need the first two to floor an opponent.