Jose Napoles a defensive fighter?

He balanced defence and offence perfectly it is hard to say if he was defensive or offensive

 

That's it. It's not just like he was on the verge of offense or defense, at times he could excel in both. At times.

 

My man his offense was impeccable.

 

There's a vid of him at lightweight it's unreal, someone on here must be able to find it. Wait there i'll do the classic forum mating call and someone will respond with the vid.

 

I wouldn't say he was defensive, but he was the definition of smooth. Defensively he was very capable, but as Greg says it all about the balance.

 

No. He was an offensive fighter that remained perfectly balanced and aware the entire time. He boxed the way you're supposed to box.

 

That last sentence, i say that about fighters like Napoles all the time, who are not defensive minded but just box and have a good defense as one of their many tools in their box. I say it about Whitaker in many of his performances, just with a different style.

 

Yeah he did crazy stuff like that in the ring but what i mean is the difference between a defensive moinded fighter like say Cory Spinks, whose priority is defence, compared to Whitaker who could just box mid ring and dominate with jabs and a variation of combinations, whilst dominating the centre of the ring stepping round his man all the time. That's a ring general. I know he had his defence minded performances like the Azumah Nelson fight. It's like Tommy Loughran if you see him, he'll stand there jabbing his man's head off and if they tried to rush him he'll just step once and he's behind them ready to counter. That's a bad example but i'm just contrasting between someone who's constantly trying to get of the way and a guy who just has a great defense as part of his arsenal, which to me is what Whitaker was in many of his fights.

 

Yeah nice post there. I'm off for a few hours now, later.