H2H Benitez is the GOAT at 140

Probably a lot considering that Benitez was washed up by the time he was 26 or 27.

 

Remember Kobe and especially Lebron? Lebron looked 27 at 17.

 

It was worse than washed up. Pugilistic dementia.

 

Benitez didn't rely on physicality. Tyson did a lot more, which might make him even more of an anomaly.

 

Seems like you need to watch a little Whitaker before commenting. He had excellent body work.

 

But was it the primary focus of his attack? Like Mccallum or Chavez who went in with the plan of kill the body, the head will follow. Hell even Ali went to the body, but was that the primary focus of his attack. By the way, Ive watched Whitaker since the Olympics so what I need to watch is the attitudes some people have here.

 

Locche end thread :hey

 

For those who claim Benitez is too big for Mayweather, last time i checked there was a 1 inch difference in height and reach.

So not really much of a size advantage.

 

That's the thing, it doesn't have to be his primary focus in order to disprove your premise. Your premise is that he's a headhunter. That was your initial stance I responded to. Your primary focus doesn't need to be body work in order to disprove said premise. Whitaker was excellent at working the body and worked the body quite extensively. In fact, I'd be curious to see who landed more body shots in their actual fight (Whitaker vs. Chavez).. I think you'd be surprised how many Whitaker landed compared to Chavez (your supposed pinnacle of body work). The simple fact remains, Whitaker was an excellent body puncher, in fact, he's one of he best at it at LW.

 

It's between Pre Prime Robinson, Prime Whitake and Prime Mayweather. Benitez just isn't as good. Neither is anyone else.

 

Well we' ll agree to disagree ,but to use the Chavez vs Whitaker fight as your example (and yes I watched that one to, as it happened not on YouTube ) is lik cleaning off the snow on your side of the field. Of course in that Particular fight Whitaker may have landed more to the body, Chavez was barely able to touch him the entire fight, but does that make him a better body puncher? So thats a silly example to use. Sounds more like your reaching for ***** Just because..

 

I don't need to do any reaching when your initial premise was that Whitaker was a headhunter. That alone means I need to do no reaching, and you started the reaching.... just saying.

 

Yes and I stand by that, your opinion is he was a body puncher, a better one then Chavez sr. That's not the Whitaker I remember. But yes you were reaching to use the Chavez vs Whitaker fight as a example.atsch

 

You can stand by a wrong claim all you want, that's your call, but it doesn't mean the view is any more right. In fact, it's plain wrong. He wasn't a headhunter, not close. What's worse, to use it how you define it, every boxer in history is a headhunter. There isn't a boxer past or present that threw more body punches than head punches in their fights. So when you go, yeah he threw body shots, but it wasn't his main focus or what he threw the most... SOOOOOO... That's 99.999999% of all boxer who ever lived. Doesn't mean the term headhunter applies, and certainly not to be used to describe somebody very adept and good at attacking the body as Whitaker. I'm confident you've watched very little Whitaker to even call him a headhunter, of that I'm very certain of. Trying watching more than HL videos bud, there's a whole big fight world out there.

 

tough division to pick GOAT