Who would you most like to have fought like...

And your a Philly man?

Only kidding.

If I could fight like anyone it would be Bernard Hopkins. I fight more like Joe Grimm though.

 

I was 5'10, and fought anywhere from 132-175, but am most comfortable as a middleweight. A serious jab, fast hands, timing, and reflexes, good legs, a good chin, and decent power, I could handle the speed freaks or those lumbering gorillas in the glory division.

But I was a BUM on the inside.

I used to fight smokers after hours in this lion's den in Roxbury. One time, I got in the ring with this short, stocky technician named "Barry." The first time, he kept shooting inside my jab and I was too damn proud to step back, so I proceeded to get wrecked. My grunts and wheezes were disrupting my thinking and I couldn't figure out how to stop him from banging me like a drum. I couldn't even see what he was doing because he was so close -and so smart- and everytime I tried to look he'd turn my head the opposite way with a short blast. Then he'd go back to work in the basement, undermining my shaky foundations. I remember being embarrassed because I actually lifted my leg up from the pain. (That's shameful in the ring.)

I had to sleep on my back for 2 weeks because of bruised ribs.

Soon after that, I saw Barry walking down Huntington Avenue to the gym and he was wearing Coke-bottle glasses that made his eyes look like an owl's. Barry the Technician was near-sighted. He couldn't see damn thing past his nose. He didn't let anyone know. Like Greb. But he got careless about it. Unlike Greb.

I thought to myself "A-HA! I GOT YOU NOW!" as I watched him go up the stairs and into the Boston YMCA. What a find that was! It would be akin to Scipio finding out that Hannibal was allergic to olive oil.

Anyway, that night I challenged him again. I had a good ole' time stepping lively outside the perimeter, and everytime he stepped in, I'd step back and ding him hither and thither with straight lefts and rights. His head was rolling down his spine half the time.

He never beat me again; though that comeback stunted my development with infighting. It took some time before I learned how to fight inside because I was able to control matters outside pretty well, well enough to neglect it -and that ain't good.

 

Yep, just isn´t natural to stay away. If you are in a fight than you are in a fight and not a race.

 

I'm about 150 lbs and 6 foot. Is there but one choice in this case...?

 

hearns

 

I am about 5/7 and 70kg (out of shape) when I was training/sparing I was 62kg's (around JWW) could boil down to LW.

I am a switch hitter, left is stronger, I would like to say a smaller Hagler (his right was stronger)

I would more be like Gatti, with a smaller heart and a more dentable chin.

 

I'm a bit over 6'6" with shoes on (1.98m for you non-Americans), but I'm about 265-270 right now, trying to get down about another 10 pounds before my first fight(s) in the summer.

 

Steenalized vs Grizzy Bear

Who you got?

 

Micheal Moorer.

 

Carlos Monzon.

 

I loved Buchanan's style I remember him fighting Laguna, Chu Chu Malave in MSG and Felt Forum, he also trained at Gil Clancy's(Howie Alberts) 28th st. Gym in NYC when he came in.

I remember asking Nat Fleischer if he thought Buchanan was a great fighter and he said he is very good but not quite great...Well Duran came along and I was not happy with that ending and the fact that they never rematched but he held his own with the great Duran and I feel Ken would hold his own with the best in any era

 

Francois Botha

 

we usually try to imitate the fighter who we admire the most.