5 fighters traits to make perfect fighter,who

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  1. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Name the best traits of five great fighters to make the PERFECT fighter..I'll start......
    Stamina=Harry Greb
    Cleverness=Willie Pep
    Combination Punching=Joe Louis
    Best All around boxer/puncher=Ray Robinson
    Best rough and tumble fighter=Jack Dempsey
    Put them together in one boxer, and you have the perfect fighter.....
    Your picks ?
     
  2. techks

    techks ATG list Killah! Full Member

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    Chin: Lamotta
    Footwork: Benny Leonard
    Technique: Ezzard Charles
    Power: Wilfredo Gomez
    Heart: Patterson

    My "Frankenstein" would fight at lower weight classes.
     
  3. JohnThomas1

    JohnThomas1 VIP Member

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    Here's an alternate with no thinking time

    Stamina=Hank
    Cleverness=Whitaker
    Combination Punching=SRR
    Best All around boxer/puncher=Thomas Hearns
    Best rough and tumble fighter=Harry Greb
     
  4. GPater11093

    GPater11093 Barry Full Member

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    Craftiness: Lloyd Marshall
    Feinting: Archie Moore
    Offence: Ezzard Charles
    Defence: Holman Williams
    Brain:Charley Burley
     
  5. Stonehands89

    Stonehands89 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    My killer-boxer needs more than 5 traits...

    Disposition early rounds: Rocky Graziano
    Disposition late rounds: Carlos Monzon
    Chin: Hagler
    Fast-twitch fibers: Hearns
    Level of Versatility: Giardello
    Power: Julian Jackson
    Defensive Skill: Holman Williams
    Offensive "Skill" upstairs: John "The Beast" Mugabi
    Offensive Skill downstairs: Two scoops Mike McCallum. one scoop Tony Zale
    Counterpunching: James Toney
    Distance and Timing: Charley Burley
    Stugots: Harry Greb


    Corner man: Ray Arcel and Eddie Futch

    .........Put THAT in your imaginary ring.
     
  6. GPater11093

    GPater11093 Barry Full Member

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    I really like the Graziano and Mugabi picks.
     
  7. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    P.S.I saw Rocky Graziano in his prime,m before the Zale fights...A wild rockum, sockum, barn burner was he.....Loved him....But the old timer writers of Rockys day,claimed he was a Poor Man's Stanley Ketchel at most...Ketchel,today is so underated, but in his day was a cruel and powerful punching machine, able to go 25 rounds full tilt, if necessary...Murdered at 24 years of age sadly...Who knows what the "Michigan Assassin would have accomplished, had fate been kinder to him....
     
  8. Addie

    Addie Myung Woo Yuh! Full Member

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    Combination Punching: Orlando Canizales
    Stamina: Myung-Woo Yuh
    Punch Resistance: Ray Mercer
    One-Shot Power: Julian Jackson
    Heart/Will: Saad Muhammad

    Who needs a defense when you take shots as well as Ray Mercer, coupled with the will and determination of Muhammad.
     
  9. john garfield

    john garfield Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Amazing that a world class fighter, with a substantial resume for stamina, could have escaped my notice, A. Fill me in about Myung-Woo?
     
  10. Addie

    Addie Myung Woo Yuh! Full Member

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    Former Light Flyweight champion from Korea. Holds the record for most consecutive title defenses at 108lbs, and beat every opponent he ever faced. Yuh was never floored in his entire professional career I don't believe.

    I site his strengths to have been his ability to throw inordinate amount of punches without becoming exhausted, throwing crisp combinations to body and head, and his head movement coupled with his quick feet allowed him to evade many of his opponent's attacks. He did lack true knockout power and was a few times guilty of fighting down to the level of his opposition, much like Orlando Canizales in that respect.

    The most impressive display of his seemingly never-ending stamina was when he first fought Mario DeMarco. Both Mario and himself must have been averaging a 100 punches a round for the whole duration of the 15 and Yuh was less than exhausted by the time of the final bell.

    Not being a knockout puncher by any stretch of the imagination, Yuh was accustomed to going the distance in the majority of his fights.
     
  11. Boxed Ears

    Boxed Ears this my daddy's account (RIP daddy) Full Member

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    Size: Valuev
    Strength: Malignaggi
    Tenacity: Kevin Johnson
    Defense: Librado Andrade
    Intelligence: Judah
     
  12. john garfield

    john garfield Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Thanks for the thumb-nail on Yuh, A
     
  13. PetethePrince

    PetethePrince Slick & Redheaded Full Member

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    This sarcastic garbage should stay in general Boxed Ears. You know where you are. You're so much better than that!
     
  14. Boxed Ears

    Boxed Ears this my daddy's account (RIP daddy) Full Member

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    Not really, but I thought you were better than lecturing against light humor. :roll:
     
  15. prime

    prime BOX! Writing Champion Full Member

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    Boxing mind: Ali
    Boxing skills: Sugar Ray
    Two-handed power: Sam Langford
    Stamina: Homicide Hank
    Chin: Jake LaMotta