Can Paul Williams "do a Henry Armstrong" and become an ATG in 2009?

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by DINAMITA, Dec 27, 2008.


  1. ekar

    ekar Active Member Full Member

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    What's up with Eastside boxing fans always busting out ATG category for every fighter on a winning streak and that has a belt. ATG has to be someone special. An ATG fighter should only come once every 10 years or so. You not only need a good resume, but have done something great that people would remember over time. Paul Williams ATG, come on man. He's not even HOF yet.
    Roy Jones maybe. He has a good resume of wins, p4p for super long time winning most of the rounds, middle weight fighter winning a heavyweight is want puts him up there.
     
  2. booradley

    booradley Mean People Kick Ass! Full Member

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    Williams/Pavlik in 2009: This is a good fight for 5 rounds. After 5 it would become extremely one-sided. It's over in 6-8 depending on how Paul's chin holds up against a huge middleweight. Paul's problem here is that he does not do a good job of fighting tall. He does not take full advantage of his enormous reach. He also tends to hold his right hand rather low, and that is a BIG problem against a guy who has a jack-hammer for a jab. Paul is an opponent that Kelly can make the jab-right hand work against. That means Paul gets hurt, and ends up against the ropes. Anybody at 160 that KP can hurt, and drive back to the ropes, is going nighty-night.

    Williams/Abraham in 2009: I actually think PTP could out box Abraham with relative ease, but outboxing a guy, and hurting him enough to get his respect are two different things. I think Abraham is strong enough and tough enough to bully Paul, and that would make it virtually impossible to avoid the right hand for 12 long rounds. Arthur only needs to land a couple of those rights, and it's over. Abraham KO late while behind on the cards.

    I'm not even willing to talk about 168 until Paul beats a decent middleweight. If Paul can get past Winky at 160, in 2010 we could be looking at a different scenario.