Fastest hands of all time.

Khan's skills were always overrated due to his handspeed and now even his handspeed gets overrated.

Roy Jones showed more impressive handspeed at age FORTY against Jeff Lacy than a prime Khan.

Roy Jones and Hector Camacho had insane handspeed. Their handspeed is more impressive to me than Meldrick Taylor's because they actually could throw full-on combinations with insane speed. Not arm flurries, but very fast and fluid combinations with leverage. Same for fighters like prime Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Floyd Patterson, Sugar Ray Leonard, etc....To a lesser extent, Zab Judah. He had outrageous speed in his youth with his straight left and left uppercut. His combos were fast too, but not as much as the aforementioned.

 

The two finger pushups are just a matter of conditioning rather than strength. I had a karate instructor in Okinawa who could put his index finger through a 3/4 inch piece of wood.

 

Really? That's interesting.:good I would think it would take a lot of strength though considering how difficult it is to do one arm pushups with your hand.

 

The stress in on the finger and wrist. I assume this "two-finger" pushup is only using the index finger of each hand. Other than the stress I talked about above, it takes little more strength than doing a regular pushup. If the pushup is just using the thumb and index finger of one hand, then the strength involved is little more than doing a one-hand pushup. I do pushups on my fingers as part of my workout routine to keep my fingers conditioned.

 

Tubbs lightning fast for a big lad.

 

Taylor suffered a broken eye socket, broken ribs, badly busted up face, had a lot of blood pumped from his stomach, was ****ing blood for weeks and was in hospital for almost 2 weeks following the fight. :hi:

 

MT is the stock choice, kinda like Shavers for power.

 

He did the "two-finger" pushups with his arms extended above his head?

 

A few seconds were left in the round and wouldn't have made a difference regarding his injuries. The damage was done, but Steele really did deprive Taylor of a sure fire Win IMO. It's still one of the most debatable stoppages in boxing history.

 

I put a lot of blame on Lou Duva, as I actually do think Taylor was distracted and looking at him when Steele was asking him questions. At least it seemed like he was looking at him rather than at Steele, as he should have been.

Duva and Taylor's team also seemed to cash out on Taylor a couple years later when they had him go in there with Terry Norris.

Exactly one year and a day after losing to Chavez, Taylor looked very good in defeating Aaron Davis for the WBA 147 lb. title. But then Taylor looked shaky after that in a couple of title defenses, particuarly when he was dropped twice and also stunned in other rounds in a win against Glenwood Brown. Taylor was listed at 5'7 with a 66" reach. Short and stocky for a welterweight, also a rather short wingspan, he always had modest power and was no defensive whiz. He was showing signs of a decline in his punch resistance against decent-punching welterweights.

"Hey, now let's have him move up again and face Terry Norris!"

Great idea. :-(

I always disliked Duva when it came to how he handled Taylor.

 

You no goggle fu?

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Yeah he was. That fat dude had quick hands.

 

Thanks, chum. That's very impressive with his hand placement, even considering that Lee wasn't that heavy up top.

 

When exactly was Khans prime?