its no the top 5 just 5 names i think are the best out of maybe a pot of 15-20 Perez is good IMO really sta down on his combos but changed angles real quick after it and rarely threw a single shot. Gushiken again he ddint throw much but when he did it was almost always in combos and they was brutal. Yeh Chang and Zapata are good shouts, Zapata is abit of the more Pernell Whittaker type combo puncher whereas Chang IMO is more like a Harada or a young Duran
Some does not equate to all though does it. Id be a fool to suggest he fought them at their best, but id also be undervaluing him if i tried to say all the guys he beat were faded. I know Amir Khan is a lot faster than JLR but i dare say he is not considered a better fighter at this point in his career, that said his name is more likely to be mentioned in the speed category than JLR regardless of resume.
Dude...wins over Curry and Leonard meant **** all back then, and they mean nothing now. ...They aren't solid wins.
Probably Leonard I, Palomino, DeJesus II and III, Lampkin and maybe the Buchanan fight, though he wasn't as well rounded at that point. Perhaps even the Marcel fight, considering that Duran was just a kid and Marcel was a superb fighter at his best. It's the little things with Duran that impress me: the feints and shifts of body movement to set everything up, the way he was almost impossible to hit back for such an aggressive fighter, his overall variety and punch selection. Even the best ring generals struggled to nullify him in this regard. It's only a small difference, but it's what separates him IMO.
I already said that didn't i? just because they were not spectacular wins you dont dismiss all the other fighters he beat as past prime.
I know, they were just great names is all. I'm liking Gushiken and Chang at the minute, and I'm gonna try to get round to watching more of Perez when I get time. Gushiken reminds me of how Mijares should have turned out.
Ive been in Chang for a while but Teeto got me into Gushiken but i aint seen Mijares so i cant comment Perez really impresses me he was lighton his feet but hugely strong at the weight and hard to catch
When he wasn't being a lazy *******, Eddie Mustafa Mohammed could put slick, old school combos together with blood-curdling power. But he was too content to sit on his arse too much of the time. Billy Conn could flurry and combo brilliantly in equal measure, and Harold Johnson put textbook punches together as good as any big man I've seen.
Thank you for your input and saving me time on defending Norris. I don't see whats so ****ing wrong with mentioning Terry Norris as one of the best combo punchers of all time. Okay one may not take heed to his resume but don't dismiss Norris as just a "good fighter" and that's it, the man was at his best an 'A' level fighter who possessed some of the best skills ever and is one of the top 3 greatest junior middleweights of all time.
your right there watched his fight with Jones last night. Brillaint combinations behind a brillaint jab. like dteh way he set them up with his jab and used his straight right.
It's a class display isn't it? All punches thrown perfectly off the jab at precisely the right moment. Like a bigger version of Hopkins in a sense. Jones was a class himself act; he'd have cleaned up this rum lot today.
very impressed. It washis jab that i was most impressed with really kept Jones off balnce He would have cleaned up today but in the spirit of the thread Chad Dawson is a no bad combination puncher obviously not of the level being discussed here
I like Dawson. He's overrated, laughably so in some circles, but I enjoy watching him and he comes across a nice, classy kid. Fast hands too, good flurrier even if his technique is a bit suspect. Plus he gave Johnson a rematch when most wouldn't have bothered.