Disputing Foreman's legacy is an uphill climb. Given he is on camera actually shut down the offense of a fighter you praised as a tech guy you...
Duran, McCallum, and Loma are aggressive pressure fighters, the parry just doesn't make sense for them to use given they are often coming forward....
Prior to his comeback, Foreman reached the apex of the division during it's so called Golden Age, and built an all time great legacy. He was very...
Cloud throws a job, Hopkins smacks his wrist and knocks it down. Incorrect. A block is the stop of an attack. A parry is a redirection of an...
What's amusing is Hopkins has wrote entire articles on the parry, and would disagree with you. Again, Hopkins using it against Cloud....
He was very effective. Enough to outbox and shutdown Norton before he knocked him out. Your example of the 70s technician was out boxed by...
A high guard and a parry are not mutually exclusive, technical fighters often parry from the high guard. I'm starting to think you are the...
They are exactly what Dick Saddler described as a parry, and taught Foreman to use very effectively.
And Byrd even using his open glove to catch Wlad's punches before they extend is a parry. As Dick Saddler explained in the clip he should have...
"he doesn't parry once" All it takes is one second to contradict this claim. No, it IS A PARRY. Fails to defend? The punch clearly does not...
Utilizing his glove to catch and misdirect his opponent's punches is a parry. And beyond that, there are text book examples in that highlight of...
post #65 address it. And it's Wlad in that video. You picked a fight where Byrd was completely outclassed and still examples of text book parry.
https://gifs.com/gif/wladimir-klitschko-vs-chris-byrd-i-highlights-Z4MzkJ So...will Bokaj admit to being wrong, or will we get an absurd...
Byrd does employ the parry several times in those clips...I'll make a gif. lol
Joe Louis is easily the best documented fighter from the 30s. And if you asked this question in 2007, people would not be so positive. The poor...