Do You Respect Light-Hitting Punchers?

well jake lamotta has low ko%! maybe he was bad finisher?

 

Great post. Totally agree.

 

Actually there's nobody in the sport that doesn't, in theory anyway, possess that emancipation card. Anybody in the world under the right circumstances, if they're caught just the right way at just the right moment (shot they don't see coming, from a certain angle, with their mouth open and neck muscles slack, etc) can be put to sleep by a blow from any person in the same neighborhood of mass. Even if the recipient has a legendary iron chin and the scorer of the KO is known to be a massive feather-fist. That is the beauty of the fight game, it contains a bottomless well of mystery & surprises.

Look at Ottke vs. Mundine, for instance. Now, that isn't to say Mundine has an iron chin - nor do I even think Ottke is among the light hitting p4p boxers of all time - but it was certainly a surprising result, and complicates accurate gauges of Anthony's chin (remember he went rounds with Kessler) and Sven's power (he really did make Calzaghe look like McClellan). There are enough of those logic-defying moments that everybody technically has a puncher's chance, in every single fight.

 

Vintage serge

 

I disagree! The standard for great fighters has been set long before you even knew what boxing was about! In fact, I believe it takes a feather fisted fighter, with big balls to step into the ring. For me, when a fighter is up against it, and doesn't have the fire power to get the other mans respect, knowing the other man can put him to sleep with one shot and manages to win, is something special. Good fights, or even great fight don't necessarily need to end in a KO. That being said, the level of excitement is heightened when 2 men, that can put each others lights out at any moment step into the ring. I guess I just love the sport.

 

Sorry, but the sport has a physical dimension to it. It's not all mental. That's what separates it from chess or painting. You must meet certain requirements to compete. You don't get to run track if you're in a wheelchair. In the hurt the other guy more than he hurts you competition you shouldn't be allowed to enter the competition unarmed. It's either a game or it's a fight. Pretending that it doesn't matter if nobody gets hurt and hey it's just about touching and tagging people for points is silly. Go play pattie cake with your sister if that's what you're into.

Oh, and shame on you for looking down on Kimbo Slice, toughman contests, and Worldstar Hip Hop. You sound like a snob. My fondness for watching more intelligent administrators of pain like Sugar Ray Robinson does not prevent me from appreciating the more pedestrian efforts of journeymen. You're so enamored of skill that you don't even care if it's effective skill, and that's as blind and misguided as people who only care about aggression whether it's effective or not. Skill without power is useless, the same as power without skill is useless. You need both combined to do anything worthwhile.

If you don't think that physical traits are just as important as technical skills go watch old men box. It ain't pretty. A fighter without power is only half a fighter.

 

More than your guy who got there on being a power puncher, when we are talking about "world level."

 

Rock 'em sock 'em robot fans... stand up with pride! Ya jackasses...

 

Yes because without gloves and not against another high level pro they will disfigure 99.9% of the population. Yes even Paulie Malinaggi