Felix Trinidad

Yeah, for some reason and I believe he'll be remembered as the "Tommy Hearns" of this generation, in part because of the DLH "PR machine."
Case in point, for some reason DLH has been "CREDITED" with providing the "blueprint" to beating Trinidad....................really, you mean box well, and then RUN during the FINAL 1/3 of a fight...

More accurately, he LOST to a better boxer and bigger man in Bernard Hopkins and fought valiantly......I'm mixed when it comes to the Winky fight, because Tito reminded me alot of Mike Tyson when he fought Lennox Lewis, no intensity, no fire, actually eerily strange seeing him like that.....This may sound harsh, but the Winky fight was the first fight Tito didn't look like "He wanted to kill someone." But Winky would have always been a tough matchup in that he comes straight in behind that peek a boo and would always make it hard for Tito to set and throw them bombs.

The guy didn't lost at 147 OR 154 llbs and fought just about everybody...During the past 15 years, there hasn't been a guy I got more pumped in anticipation of him fighting:deal

 

Great post.:good

 

I hate Trinidad. Horrible style IMO.

 

Same here, I've never liked him.

 

What exactly do you mean by that?

 

For a fighter with a horribe style, he sure took it to the limits to being a multidivisional champion

 

Trinidad to me was a throwback to the 1970's type fighters in the
the mid-weights who dueled with each other for national pride and somebody always went down fighting and was carried out on his shield.

I would like to have seen him and The Hitman meet at mid-ring and
start flailing punches at each other.

Somebody is going to hit the deck.

 

Hate is a strong word

 

Hearns was a far better, more diverse, accurate boxer, with the straighter, quicker shots. He'd outbox Tito badly before landing his precision shots first. Power is the only thing Tito has in comparison.

 

..............He was one of those guys that made you tune in because you knew there would be carnage.

I give him a lot of credit. He's one of relatively few TRUE punchers that didn't "fall in love" with his power. He always threw multi-punch combos and threw all the shots correctly. In this regard, he was very well schooled. I think ultimately he falls short of what most would consider true greatness, but whatever. That's such an arbitrary term applied so differently by so many people that it renders the saying virtually useless, so I don't like to get hung up on that.

 

Not hard to work out what I mean by that. I hate Trinidad based on his style. He lacked a good defense, wasn't fluid, couldn't box on the backfoot, and never showed much versatility. Trinidad seldom went out during rounds to box behind the jab, it was knockout on the mind.

However, he could punch extremely hard, was in great fights, and had heart and determination by the bucket load.

 

You're right. Many fighters with horrible styles in ones opinion might be multi-division champions. You don't have to be the complete package to be great.

Trinidad's an all-out aggressive bomber, and it worked for him for the most part. But he doesn't do it for me.

 

Failed to live up to his potential, in my opinion. Watch some early Trinidad fights and it's clear that he fell in love with his power later in his career.

 

..........What are some examples?