Wilder is taller, longer, faster, has much better stamina, little in common with Foreman other than both had power. If a fighter could survive...
If a fighter beats Frank Bruno and Tony Tucker, he isn't "awful." That fighter beat two big, strong, talented boxers. All fighters have flaws...
exactly, trainers get too much credit and too much criticism on message boards. The fighter does the fighting and unless I get proven wrong one...
Carter is a big puncher with good technique, LaMotta is an arm puncher and swarmer with suspect balance. IMO, Carter would be too strong, he'd...
probably wouldn't be exciting, a lot like Tubbs - Page, a lot of circling, jabbing, missing, with little sustained fighting. Neither would force...
RJJ had excellent fundamentals, he just sometimes chose to be unconventional. Style is individual, fundamentals/good body mechanics are something...
Conn is a BIG improvement over Corbett and Baer, Conn looks like a boxer. He'd be competitive with most light heavyweights in the same day weigh...
Who were these "good technicians?" I'd like to see them on video, I've seen Carnera, the Baers, Braddock, Simon, Schmeling, Galento, Sharkey,...
Baer's best win might have been Tony Galento, a guy who might have had less skill than Baer. Baer never beat anybody who could have survived with...
probably too obvious, but any fight that Larry Holmes dominated. When I think of jabbing I think of Holmes.
the reason you called it an "unimpressive combination" is because it was. Corbett had no idea how to shift his weight, he had no footwork to get...
that you're impressed by Corbett's "skills" tells me all I need to know about your knowledge of boxing mechanics. Watching old fights is like...
The first "combination" was thrown at a retreating, much smaller fighter, from the video it is hard to see exactly what is happening. The right...
To me Wilder has great stamina, power that he carries with him the whole fight, and quick feet for a heavyweight that he uses to create angles...
Corbett looks like an untrained person slap boxing in the video, a well trained fighter couldn't look that bad if he tried. Corbett today, just as...
