Arguello vs. Whitaker

Yes Whitaker wide UD, Arguello is far too predictable for Whitaker

 

whitaker is all wrong for arguello.

pea by UD. and a rather wide one.

 

Alexis Arguello was an all time great. But Whitaker was absolutely brilliant. I would pick him to win a hard fought but clear decision.

 

Alexis Arguello is my all time favorite, but Sweet Pea is all wrong for him. Between 126-140 Alexis would have a shot at knocking out anyone in history, but there are a few guys who were just to fast and to slick for the thin man.

 

How is whitaker all wrong for him? A accurate boxer puncher like arguello has the perfect style to get too a slick defensive master like whitaker

 

cause arguello lacked speed, both of hands and of feet. whitaker had both. thats why.

 

Whitaker imo, never easy against this man though, 1 of the greatest warriors the ring has ever seen, ever

 

Yes, as he showed against Vilomar Fernandez so well.

 

Arguello lacked hanspeed? I certainly didnt see that. He was a stalker, of course he is not going to have overwhelming footspeed, but he was great at cutting off the ring and moving in and out of range. Arguello had something else that would frustrate the hell out of whitaker, he had accuracy, precision, and he boxed cool and patiently.....

 

Yes, because Whitaker never had any of that. Seriously, are you trying to tell me Arguello has the clear edge in any of those categories? Accuracy and precision are pretty much the same thing. Whike Arguello was accurate, often he'd have to time his shots before landing the big one, unlike Whitaker, who was a fantastic counter-puncher as well.

Cool and patient? How does that give Whitaker hell? That's his fight.

 

Becuase when whitaker made you miss, you got frustrated and off your game. You needed to stay calm and cool and keep on your game because whitaker in many fights would begin his track meet and you could outwork him with effective aggresion. It was the fighters that had less than average balance that overcommited themselves after throwing punches that whitaker made them look foolish. They would get frustrated because they kept missing whitaker and it would cause them to go off their games. Arguello was too smart for that. He boxed calm and cool and calculated like the way tom brady plays quarterback. Arguello would stay on his game plan the whole fight. He had the long arms to give whitaker trouble at long range. He boxed brilliantly at all ranges, on the inside he was a terror with those short combinations like joe louis.


One thing about whitaker fans, for a man that had alot of close fights on the scorecards in his career, they seemed to thing he would beat alot of ATGs on wide decisions in fantasy h2h matchups.

 

I agree with all of this, except the part about long arms giving Whitaker trouble. Not at all, he proved this against quicker fighters like Pendleton and Mayweather. Arguello was an excellent fighter, but the slicker defensive stylists like Whitaker gave him more trouble as they were much harder to time, due to both movement of feet and upper body. Fernandez got by with simple foot movement.

Which fights in Whitaker's prime were close calls?

 

you didnt see that??? then look closer.

 

I like Whitaker by dec here ,Arguello was great but he had slow feet against a defensive master like the Pea that is a recipe for defeat imo.Fernandez showed Alexis up with his speed and movement,and Whitaker is several levels above him .