Fighters who were great at doubling and tripling up with the same punch

You snooze you lose.

 

I was so excited nobody mentioned Williams, and it was my time to shine, until the last ****ing post.

 

Never mind, it’s all for the greater good = Big Cat, but I’ll PM to check with you next time. My bad.

 

Not many common coaches really teach that sort of stuff anymore. You work the bag, you work the pads, and they want every one of your punches to be going through it.

Ironically, you can stop a guy with weak punches if you just use em correctly, but not everyone learns that.

 

Even Troy Dorsey and Manuel Medina hurt people as powder puff punchers… watch there fight, Dorsey was a terrier and Medina taught him a lesson in boxing, a lesson he never learnt it makes me want to pull out my hair when guys say X Y Z will walk through his punches… If Dorsey with his chin can’t walk through Medina’s pillows… you ever been punched before? All someone has to do is make you say “okay then” blink, consider what happened… Griffith who we are both fans of would only hit you hard if you started getting brave, not walking through his shots but taking more chances because a mistake won’t put you to sleep, Griffith could hit ****ing hard when he got nasty and wanted to dog it out but it wasn’t his game… everyone who knows how to punch properly can hit hard, Medina, Dorsey and Ali had some very so-so to not very good form so usually they couldn’t hurt someone, If Frazier took the number of shots he did from Ali and it was Louis slinging them he’d not make it out of the 4th…

 

Griffith is someone I've definitely learned a lot from in this regard, as well as Holmes (everyone's seen the clip of him talking about whipping a jab like a bath towel). You don't really need to be throwing power punches every single round for long times, you just gotta find good places for em. Flick to the body, flick to the head, maybe throw a good left in there- The only real strong punches I throw consistently are left crosses and right hooks, since those are typically the ones that work well. I find that some of the most effective punches are the ones that just roll out of your guard, you just throw it like you're shadow boxing and whaddaya know? The guy's out.

The art of peppering your shots and wearing down your opponent is likely the most important thing for a fighter to learn, as it not only makes it easier to take out your opponent, but it also keeps your gas tank going. Throwing punches naturally, at a good rate, makes you able to win points without taking yourself out in the process. Tight punches CAN kill if given the right opportunity, but will ALWAYS kill if given the perfect opportunity.

I think it's really just that negative stereotype of people equating "soft" or "weak" punches as ineffective ones, but anybody who's been in the ring knows that that's far from the truth. I can dodge your thundering cross a thousand times over before I'd get the same opportunity to dodge your quick little jabs or hooks.

 

Soft spot for Bazooka Limon. He'd throw 3 uppercuts in a row while moving his feet and chasing a guy down.

 

Robinson could throw triple left hooks like no other. I've seen Cerdan do it too. I don't recall many others doing it.
You would think with technology, and all the reference material available to newer fighters, that they would study fight films and try to incorporate things like that into their style.