Fighters who were good - as long as they weren't fighting punchers

I hate to quote myself but ...

http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=180568

 

Ydh i always thought Bobo had an alright chin. He had a pretty good defence taht kept his chin out of the way anyways. Against Ray Robinson the second time he took some alright shots and flushed them off

 

He also got up from the canvas to win a few fights but it seemed like Archie Moore turned his chin into glass.

 

Tiger Flowers could be mentioned.

 

Sean O'Grady was a talented fighter, but did seem to freeze a bit against power punchers like Danny Lopez and Andy Ganigan.

 

yeh impression i got havent seen the moore fight though

 

Joe Frazier - 2 KO loses with Foreman and floored by strong Bonavena

 

Here's the ending.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jut6UYr6_M0[/ame]

I've got the full fight as well but the quality is pretty poor. It was a good technical battle for a couple of rounds until Moore set him up for a counter right hand as can be seen in the above video.

 

thanks for that, was Bobo taking good shots the whole fight? as he took afew in that round without being hurt.

Also Archie lands a brutal left hook then Bobo stops moving and Archie kinda pushes with his left as Bobo fell was it the first left hook that stopped Bobo in his tracks then made him crumble afew seconds later? i thought it was.

also was Bobos legs made out of velcro he couldnt lift his legs off the canvas he was scating around on his knees

 

Yes he did take a couple of good punches in the earlier rounds. The counter right stunned him and the crushing left hook absolutely finished him.

Against Robinson and later Torres, Olson tried to get up in similar fashion but couldn't make it.

 

Ray Robinson.

 

funny that he tried to get up the same way in them fights

Ive heard of a glass jaw but Velcro Legs :nut

not a name i would expect he never really fought a great puncher, of the top of my head. who did he not fight well aginst who was a puncher?

 

It was only intended as a half-serious jibe, but there's more than an ounce of truth to it. Robinson met a lot of great fighters but you'd have expected a few more punchers to turn up. There were hard punchers on his string of victims, but not many great ones. Not compared to, say, Ezzard Charles, who some people will say had a shaky jaw that was not in the same stratosphere as Robinson's - but then there was quite a gulf in the pound-for-pound punching ability of their opponents. Ray, Moore, Walcott, Louis, Marciano and so on.

Not that I doubt Robinson could have dealt with Pipino Cuevas, of course. He did take a hard whack here n' there; Graziano, Turpin, Bell. But for the most part, his great opponents were attritional - Gavilan, LaMotta, Basilio, Fullmer, even Zivic, Angott and Armstrong by that time.

 

Terry Norris maybe?

 

Terry Norris!