The Sugar's Ray Robinson, Ray Leonard & Shane Mosley

All 3 seem to be outstanding athletes with exlent boxing skills but are not classic style boxers. They are also on the tall side for their weights Mosley is 5′ 9″ while Robinson is 5′ 11″ and Leonard is 5′ 10".

 

OK, and what about it?

 

Just an observation and opinion of mine. Fell free to agree or dissgree if you want.

 

OK.

I think all three found a way to maximise their athletic ability through their boxing style.

Out of all of them I think Ray Leonard is the most fundamentally sound. But Ray Robinson is the best.

 

Greg's probably right. People say Robinson's jab wasn't right, but he could shut people out with more or less just that when past his best. So that further argues Greg's point that even if he was not the best fundamentally, he was the best of the three.

Mosley for me in a technical sense is not as good as them two. Not in terms of the basic fundamentals anyway, though his advanced punching stuff is not bad at all. He goes to the body with conviction and could finish with combos in his prime very well. When it comes to boxing though both the other two have it down and Shane doesn't. Robinson simply has more in his arsenal than Leonard in my opinion.

Here you knew i'd say it, 'i did a thread on that', haha

 

Two of these guys had great feet.

One of them didn't/doesn't.

 

All great, but progressively less so.

 

Leonard and Robinson certainly were classic boxer-punchers imo.

Mosley is an unskilled labourer by comparison, as far as technical skills go.an athletic offensive force, who never learned to refine his style, and often looked as if he was now wary of letting his hands go, post Forrest defeat.

 

The Fifties were a great time for boxing, especially technique.

The Murderer's Row solidified the fundamentals and were traditionalists who learnt off each other; Robinson was an innovater who broke the mould.

Also I have always said Mosley was just a flashy, athletic, mid range slugger.

 

That's one of your best posts GP.

 

Why thank you.

Its a wee little quote I thought sounded good one time I said it to myself and I memorised it since.

 

Don't forget about Sugar Ray Seales. :good

 

Haha yeah, Hagler's nemesis.

 

Wow, Mosley is getting some real stick on this thread.

 

Maybe he wasn't quite on the level of Ray I and II, but Mosley had very good, fast feet in his prime. Could hop back and make an opponent fall short and then shift his weight forward and counter effortlessly. Could close down a retreating opponent very quickly too. Let's not start dismissing him as some pathetic imitation. Even Ray II approved of Shane.