Whitaker vs Tszyu @ 140

Bingo :good

 

I think its pretty easy to assume he would take less chances against a puncher like Tszyu. Also Mitchell was more of a boxer mover than a slickster. Whitaker could be slick in close which is far harder for a guy with Tsyzus style of stalking setting and punching to land on as opposed to Mitchell who liked to move and box from the outside.

BTW by the Hurtado fight Whitaker was done

 

why not? they were better. or do yojust know nothing about them and obviously by prewar you mean pre desert-storm:happy

 

Have you ever seen Wilde fight mate? He crosses his legs over each other and everything when he moves forwards, then after taking steps back his legs end up together. Technique barely existed back then.

It maybe wasn't his fault he lived in an era of no knowledge.

I believe I could outbox Jimmy Wilde over 4 rounds, as could many people on this forum, given they have technique and size on their side. Admittedly he appears to have a little power, but things really were that bad back then.

 

robin reid in the top ten of brit fighters :nut

 

Never saw KT have prob;ems with southpaws.Zab was quick and slick and lasted 2 rounds.
Pea would win some early rounds but eventually KT times him and he gets knocked out.Remember how much trouble Mayweather had Pea when he finally landed-KT is a better finisher then Mayweather was.

 

Um... are you sure you want to use those two as examples? Against Mayweather Whitaker was about 10 fights into his career while Mayweather was an experienced fighter in between his two championship reigns. And Sweet Pea knocked him down and almost out in the first round and dominated virtually all of the fight. Yeah, Roger knocked Pea down once, after Whitaker had thoroughly clowned him and pulled down his trunks in the middle of the ring, but that was about the only big moment Roger had in the fight. (And Pea did it with an injured hand).

As for the Hurtado fight, Whitaker was coming towards the end of his career and was permanently high, so much so that fights of his were being thrown out left and right because he was testing positive on drug tests. And he still knocked Hurtado the **** out.

 

Pea was taking the fight to Mayweather 30 seconds later, even after Mayweather also hit Pea when he was down.

 

Tszyu will time Whitaker and hit him flush. And Whitaker will take it. And he'll win the fight.

We're talking about a guy that has proven he can take power shots. Even with a broken jaw. Even past his prime. Even whilst fresh out of rehab.

We aren't talking here about Sharmba Mitchell or Zab frikken Judah.

 

Has nothing to do with it,i saw the fight when it happened and I had Lopez. In fact i havent seen the fight since. Lopez was a 90s fighter too he started in the 80s but went to the Joint for a few years, returned in the 90s where he had even more fights than his first career at Featherweight.

 

I dont understand why people bring up the Mayweather fight Pernell was in his 12th fight and still won convincingly despite suffering a flash knockdown.

If you want to bring that up like i posted earlier we can talk about Tszyu being very lucky to get the nod over Hector Lopez when he was first coming up.

 

Or we could mention that he couldn't even knock out a washed up uncle Rog.

 

Right i explained that to someone yesterday that thought Tszyu was better than Chavez at 140.

 

That made that win very weighty, in my opinion. He was so off his best and sucked it up, and muscled through it like a truly great fighter can.

 

Agreed. It was interesting to see Whitaker who was never a big puncher forced to stand and fight a little more when his reflexes started failing him.