Which fighters had the best head movement?

I've seen the fight a few times, and actually thought the closest rounds were the first two. The next 3 (including the 5th, prior to the KO punch) seemed to be gravy for Curry.

Kalule was an excellent fighter. He was still capable of making nice, slick moves, but by the time of the McCallum fight (Kalule should've moved up immediately post-Leonard rather than continue stretching himself at 154) the draining had taken its toll and he no longer had the stamina to keep going at that pace. He seemed more reliant on trying to press the pace with forward work, keeping McCallum on his toes, because he could no longer sustain the constant in and out movement his more youthful years allowed him.

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What y'all guys think about Chavez' head movement? Many people have this idea of him being a face first no defense brawler, but he really had some very good and underrated head/upper body movement in his day IMO.

Thoughts on that?

 

I agree with you.

 

Roberto Duran

 

Chavez head movement was great until he got to 140.He slipped noticeably then imo, albeit arguably more reflexively than fundamentally.

 

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Sweet Pea
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Tyson
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Honourable mentions, Jose Napoles, Marciano, Jack Johnson, Duran, Floyd Patterson

 

Luis Manuel Rodriguez has a nice, always moving, sort of head movement that allows him to slip inside and slip punches really quick, with little waste energy.

 

I agree, but i think Chavez displayed some pretty good head movement in the first Taylor fight. He was slipping alot of Taylors punches at times, but of course he did get tagged alot too.

 

I'm pretty sure Mccallum backed him up and was looking to take the fight over before he ko'd Curry but I'll rewatch it in a month or so. I don't remember all of the Kalule fight. Both were good fights.

Lets keep it platonic, lol.

 

He sure did. I wish there was more footage of him and also better quality of the footage available.

 

There is quite a lot of footage of him.

 

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