Did these guys have any weaknesses?

good joke none of them were

 

Ali had lots of weaknesses actually. He slipped too much in his younger days, and also did it a lot in the FOTC and paid vs. Frazier and Doug Jones. He clowned too much. He dropped his hands too low when he threw the uppercut. He laid on the ropes vs. strong, tireless body punchers like Frazier and Norton. He pulled his right hand back when he threw the left jab. He was not a good inside fighter.

 

That go's without saying but the majority of his fights were anything but boring

 

Archie Moore:

Footspeed

Muhammad Ali:

Punching power
Overreliance on reflexes to avoid punches (but he adapted as he got older)

Mike McCallum

footspeed
punching power above 154

James Toney

Inconsistent conditioning
work rate (punch output)

Carlos Monzon

Footspeed

Fighting Harada

I know nothing about him

 

He's dead.

It wasn’t from Ali’s punches though.

 

Toneys work rate was actually very good in title fights. It was the stay busy fights where he tended to get lazy

 

Did you see Dave Tiberi dight?
Reggie Johnson?

 

I liked when they rated fighters head to head in 10 categories max of 10 points in each category when there was a coming matchup.

Theoretically the guy with the most points would win but of course in practice it didnt always work out that way.

 

Yea. Reggie Johnson was a very good fighter and it was Toneys very first title defense which he won.

He was outworked and clearly did not prepare well for Tiberi but the man has had many other title fights against much better fighters than Tiberi such as Nunn/McCallum/Jirov/Barkley/griffin/Rahman/Ruiz/Holyfield/Peter.

He had excellent output in all of those fights. Tiberi was clearly an outlier

 

Every boxer has weaknesses.

The exceptions merely prove the rule!

 

He's right. Legs are what it takes to withstand punishment. Cleveland didn't have legs. We all agree that Williams wouldn't have beaten Ali in '66 even with good legs, but it probably would have lasted the distance, since Williams was never knocked out by a light puncher.

 

Absolutely

 

That was just about the time Gomez started partying too much so had the mag known about it they could have put that down as a weakness.