Choose the GREATEST displays of all boxing aspects from the last 20 years...

Ok so in your opinion shannon briggs has better stamina then david haye and malignaggi has a better jab then jones

 

To say Morales came in "half dead" is ****ing ludicrous, the guy was a career superbantam/feather, he'd been at superfeather for 3 years, had produced some excellent performances there, had produced the best win of his career there not a year earlier, and never looked convincing in either of the two lightweight fights he had in that period (Raheem and Diaz).

I put it to you that Morales looked better vs Pac in the 2nd fight than he did vs both Raheem and Diaz at his apparently perfect fighting weight of 135!!


Anyway, as I said, I think Morales was a warrior. As was Arguello, and Duran, and Chavez.

But that doesn't change the fact that there have been fighters who would never do so, and those fighters deserve to be ranked higher on the "fighting will" scale.


You watch Larios-McCullough II, and see McCullough remonstrating with Margaret Goodman at the end, and then tell me Morales was his superior in terms of fighting will. deal:deal

 

Nope, but that isn't the point of the thread. I don't think you understand the concept here at all. atsch

The thread title mentions "displays of all boxing aspects", not "boxers".

I have never seen anyone within the last 20 years try to use their jab and do it so woefully ineffectively as Jones did that night vs Griffin. Every single jab was short, every single jab was light, it was a strange and dire attempt at jabbing.

I have never seen any 24 year old fighter gas to the point that he was stopped in a fight he was winning after only 5 rounds vs a 40 year old opponent - have you? :huh



If you had seen these fights or if you had actually read and understood the thread title, perhaps I wouldn't have had to waste time clarifying something that everyone else realized on the first page. :good

 

Kessler clearly beat Froch you idiot. As will Andre Ward. :smoke

 

This thread has got 96 responses, whereas every half-assed Pac/Floyd one on the General gets about 200-300. A sad indictment of this forum, because EVERYONE should have strong opinions on this thread topic seeing as its discussing the best of our era.

:-(

 

I pretty much agree with the whole thing. Another great thread by Popkins.

There is some changes i would make though. I think Roy Jones should be a runner up for Combination punching for sure.

Also I know James Toney is a runner up for Chin but I think Toney's chin is the best out of the past 20 years. I mean he was only knocked down twice and they were only flash knockdowns by Jones and Johnson. He then took punches from middleweight all the way up to Heavyweight. Much better than McCullough IMO.

 

I'm a massive Toney fan, but JT never proved his chin as much as McCullough did IMO. Toney's defence meant that he was rarely caught cleanly, whereas McCullough often took sustained beatings by big punchers and never hit the floor.


FYI: Toney was dropped in the Peter rematch as well.