This content is protected Thought I'd start posting a couple of my videos on this forum. Hope you all enjoy. You guys have any thoughts on this all time great Welterweight?
Thanks for posting this. Great work. Napoles was such a great operator, always in the right place and the right position which started from his feet and followed thru to his head. He is under-appreciated in these parts... well, just about every non-heavy is. Nice Aaron Neville, too!
So smooth, so relaxed, so effortless. Perhaps the most educated left hand you'll see. He was actually rather sparing with his right, though this video shows him on the attack as his opponents are in distress, at which point he'd open up more with both hands. Just really educated. He never pressed, never tried to force anything. Magnificent ring general too, you were drawn into watching and focusing on him in the ring, never the guy he was fighting, giving the very real impression that he was in charge all the way.
Napoles....great fighter. And he ruled over an era of very good chalengers to his WW title. (I think that was Ernie "Red" Lopez who Napoles beat twice (?) and broke his eye socket in the film above). And Napoles liked the post fight parties & cervezas.
Never going to see a fighter using both hands like him just an offensive machine clicking on all cylinders.
Thank you, great montage, he was WW champ when I first became a boxing fan when I was a kid in around 1972. Lots of great champs at that time, Frazier (then Ali in 74), Foster, Monzon, Napoles, Duran, great time.
One of those guys like Ray Robinson or Wilfredo Gomez that had perfect footwork whether on offense or defense. He beat a lot of very good fighters that get underrated because they weren't in a sexy era like Curtis Cokes and Eddie Perkins. As for the negative he was a salsa based fighter. Wink wink nudge nudge.
At 1:25, that 1 shot, devastating right uppercut, which not only ko'ed Indian Red, but shattered some of Red's eye bones.