How can anyone think Ward is 'more skilled' than Rigondeaux?

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  1. weegriffin

    weegriffin Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Are you saying Hopkins and Ward aren't skilled?:what:
     
  2. YearZero

    YearZero Boxing Addict Full Member

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    the mistake people make is that they think you can only be skilled if you are an outside, sharp fighter like rigondeaux.

    if you ever tried doing the **** bhop and ward does, inside fighting of that high level you'd know that it is much harder to learn and execute that **** than being dominant from the outside. whatever... opinions will be opinions.
     
  3. cslb

    cslb Puerto Rican Uppercut Full Member

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    :good
     
  4. bluebird

    bluebird Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Rigondeaux doesn't need to do that though because he is so good on the outside. It's like comparing B-Hop and Prime Roy Jones.
     
  5. thesmokingm

    thesmokingm Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Guys like Bhop fight the way they do because they cannot fight like Rigo and Jones Jr. Natural born gifts dictate style. Duh!
     
  6. iceman71

    iceman71 WBC SILVER Champion Full Member

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    Ward has fought much better comp
     
  7. YearZero

    YearZero Boxing Addict Full Member

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    aren't you proving my point for me?
    training in other words skills vs natural gifts?
     
  8. thesmokingm

    thesmokingm Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    lol wut?

    You said the **** Bhop is uber skilled vs the **** Rigo does. You implied that it is a choice that Bhop is a spoiler type, but that is wrong. It is hard doing anything at a high skill level sure, but let's not kid ourselves. Bhop could never fight like Jones Jr even if he wanted to.
     
  9. gmurphy

    gmurphy Land of the corrupt, home of the robbery! banned Full Member

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    Donaire is a better win than anyone ward has beat, and he did it in an incredible manner
     
  10. Ezzard Charles

    Ezzard Charles Well-Known Member Full Member

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    how can they?


    because he is.
     
  11. Ezzard Charles

    Ezzard Charles Well-Known Member Full Member

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    he got dropped brah.
     
  12. gmurphy

    gmurphy Land of the corrupt, home of the robbery! banned Full Member

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    He was caught square and off balance, was a flash knock down, he got up and beat the **** out of donaire for the rest of the round, it was a master class
     
  13. Ezzard Charles

    Ezzard Charles Well-Known Member Full Member

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    but he's obviously not the technical master people are claiming.... cos if he was he wouldn't have been 'caught square on'....


    that's amateur hour.

    he's in a weak division.... but in fairness the competition doesn't get much stiffer until about two more weight classes up.... which means he'll face mediocre opposition until he retires.
     
  14. gmurphy

    gmurphy Land of the corrupt, home of the robbery! banned Full Member

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    Weak? Frampton,quigg,donaire, Santa Cruz , Martinez it's far from weak, 168 is weaker division up from there? Loma, the Mexican Russian , Walters etc

    Well let's see rigo got knocked down by a p4p top 4 guy, wards been knocked down by a journeymen, what does that make him?
     
  15. Gneus7

    Gneus7 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    He's one of the best out there technically and Donaire is probably a more difficult opponent than anyone Ward has ever fought.