If Sweet Pea were a present day boxer................................

No. Pea stood in front of you and made you miss. He darred you to hit him, and when you did he made you look like you were trying to hang a combination on Casper. He also had a high offensive workrate, and was a good body puncher.

He wouldnt be hated, maybe not universally loved, but not hated either.

 

Agreed.

And Willie Pep would be hated even more.

 

pernell would be loved im sure of it. we like movers ,we like quick fighters, we like men who fight anybody in the division. who are not arrogant, and figh becuase they fight will give rematch when pressed and fights about 3 fights a year.

floyd doesnt do that he doesnt school brawlers...i think the only pure brawlers were castillo, corrales and gatti. and in that gatti was limited slow and terribly blown up. corrales was weak chinned but had dinamite power i feel this is floyds best win.

but castillo...the poor mans julio chavez beat him made him look like an awful jab and run artist.

and tell me did pernell beat chavez or what :yikes

pernell had an great workrate a shotgun jab and a great ability to dodge punches...


lall these quailities floyd has but doesnt use every fight

 

Whitaker was a lot more exciting to watch than most defensive boxers, he was a lot more aggressive than Mayweather especially against good competition. Mayweather will be aggressive against totally overmatched opponents. People make the mistake of thinking because Whitaker was a defensive wiz he spent the whole night on his bike. He threw and landed a lot of punches, was much more aggressive and fun to watch than Mayweather, he just didn't have much power

 

If Sweet Pea were a present day boxer, he'd be a PPV fighter JUST for his bunch of SKILLS ALONE

 

This is true. But this type of behaviour is probably actually becoming more and more acceptable in todays sports world. The old school fight fans hated this type of stuff, I think we are more permissive.

 

Some guys might not like Whitaker but no boxer who ever lived was liked by EVERYBODY.

If Pernell fought today he would be the best p4p fighter in the world... no fighter fighting today could have handled chavez the way pernell did that night.... masterfull.

:good

 

I don't know if he'd be hated, but I doubt he'd be loved either. People might feel like same way they feel about Winky.

 

He would be held in the same regard as Hopkins or Wright.

Say what you want about Mayweather, but Whitaker would not have finished off Corrales or Gatti like Mayweather had. He would've outboxed them soundly, but he never had the potential to dazzle the average fan with his combinations like Floyd.

 

I had the Gatti fight in mind. Whitaker would never do what Floyd did to Gatti that night.

 

Of course not. But that's irrelevant in this conversation. Hypothetically speaking, if we were to put a 140 lbs Whitaker in there with Gatti, he'd win by either a shutout decision or a stoppage. But he sure as hell would not do it as spectacularly as Floyd did.

 

And it would not appeal to the casual fan as much as Floyd teeing off on Gatti's head and ribs.

 

Yes 'cause Gatti is a friend of his, otherwise he'd do the same thing. Gatti was his sparring partner in the mainevent stable.