Here he is knocking out Choi, blue trunks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaNs6bpOFtY&feature=related Savage body puncher, anyway. Anyone a fan? Anyone rate him?
swear to god i instinctivly growned a "OOOOOOOH" at 9:05....in a library thanks alot beuty of a shot ive seen him before a really like his style and pacing creeping movement...but sadly he seems way too flat footed and is used to looking down on opponants and when he did step up he really paid for it. lopez (a hall of famer of course so pinch of salt) did a ali vs williams/ stevenson vs bobick job on him. gave him way too much movement and angles but took a punch well and used his physical advantages to beat opponants [yt]Vmqi4rxKk4M[/yt] a good showing of his power end of his first title reign in horrific fashion [yt]IVbtya9JYbw[/yt] [yt]1WKErHrZhTs[/yt]
Good answer (And thanks - I was getting that "no responses" type feeling). Lopez used him up alright, probably my favourite Ricardo performance aside from Preecha, which I just love, I love that KO. I'd agree with you that he's a stalker, and one that was reliant upon his physical advantages. He was a big fighter that fought big. But like you say, he could definitely bang. Against Lopez, I feel he showed to much respect, should have tried to make it rougher and brought it inside. There seems to be a sort of gentleman's agreement that develops, that the fight would be contested at long-range, and that suits El Finito. The one-two to drop Ohashi at 2.14 of part II is perfect, a perfect one-two.
Reinforces my idea from a few months ago that smaller fighters have a much harder time coping with bodyshots.
He was a pretty good technician and a good puncher, but not a special fighter or an elite at the lower weights by any means, though his rematch with (a past prime) Jung-Koo Chang was a classic war.
