**As a boxer: slow w/ power or swift/ no power....**

as a fighter and as a man, the first thing you want is power.

 

Slow with power. You can work on timing. GGG isn't the fastest guy around, but he'll put you to sleep.

If you completely lack power, you get in there with a guy with the right style and plenty of heart, he's going to give you a beating of a lifetime, even if you win.

Every time you fight a guy like that, it's going to be life and death.

The opposing fighter is not going to be afraid to take risks and counter your punches, even if they get hit in return. It's a bad situation to be in.

If you're too slow, yes, there is definitely a possibility that a defensive boxer could beat you, and perhaps even a guy with no power could win on points, but that all depends on styles.

Just because you're slow of hand and foot, doesn't mean you don't have the style necessary to beat a boxer. You have to throw a lot of punches and walk them down. Vary the power because you can.

Plus if you have power and you meet a guy with a lot of heart that keeps coming forward, you can put them to sleep Foreman vs Frazier style.

 

That's why I don't understand people wanting to put Crawford in with Provo, who is actually not all that slow, especially when he has you against the ropes. Those combinations flow.

But Crawford's power is a question mark, especially at 140. If it turns out Crawford really is an arm puncher, he may beat Provo, but he's going to take one hell of a beating to do it.

But maybe a guy that can really punch, like Keith Thurman, maybe, might be able to control Provo relatively easily and even put him to sleep.

Styles make fights.

 

So true. Let Crawford take a tune up fight. He's taken some hard fights and deserves to test out the waters at 140 before jumping in with sharks.

Sometimes all it takes is one fight to lose your momentum and cripple you mentally (Bute).

 

hamed

 

Probably power.

 

Slow with power.

Ego wise, and because I'm not from one of the big boxing countries, so I can never rely on th judges if it goes the distance.

 

Slick goes far in the sport, sport with power certainly doesn't.

 

I don't know if I agree with that. Power gets you viewers.

At the end of the day, people want at the very least, a chance of a KO.

Believe me, if Mayweather was featherfisted, he would have gotten his ass beat a long time ago unless he had the cherry picking strategy of a lifetime.

I will say, Mayweather may not be featherfisted, but he doubted his ability to keep Margarito off him.

 

Slow with power. Even if you're slow, you'd still always have a puncher's chance.

All it takes is one punch in boxing.

 

It has nothing at all to do with Floyds power or lack of.... or his chin .

Its his reflexes and his excellent shoulder roll defense that has protected him from getting stopped .

 

Slow with power .

No matter how bad im behind on the scorecards , Theres will always be a very high chance I can quickly erase the judges scorecards and send their asses home with a single haymaker on my opponent .

 

I'll take lightening speed and slightly less pop, although I'd want enough to stop dudes if landed clean enough. Big power but no chance of landing anything is of limited use.