Recently I asked what was a slick fighter. I got some good answers. Thanks everyone. What exactly are slick combos?
a combo that looks really cool..i usually picture fast combos more than powerful onces... although joe louis did it as well....
A guy that throws slick combinations knows how to chain his punches, so one feeds the momentum of the next. He knows how to place his punches, and he varies the speed and the power on his punches. Because you aren't always throwing as fast or as hard as you can. In a combination, there is (or should be) a punch you are looking for, and you set down on that one more than the others. I recall watching Orlando Canizalez fight long ago, and he hurt his opponent with a hook to the body. The rest of the fight, every time he went to the body with his left hook, he cranked it, whether it was the first, third, or wherever in the sequence.
C'mon... RJJ threw slick, amateurish flurries. They were just really fast. For real, hurtful, slick combos, you gotta watch Duran, McCallum, Leonard, Wilfredo Gomez, Joe Louis, young James Toney, Cotto, Trinidad...
Watch some Sugar Ray Robinson and some James Toney. Mike McCallum had some real good stuff too. Doesn't look as slick since he isn't as quick, but he's landing punch after punch in combination upstairs and down, and doing it without exposing himself to counters. That's the slickness.