Let's assume you're a pro boxer, and you have elite level skills and excellent physical atributes for the most part, BUT you have one terrible flaw. Considering you're supposed to compete at the current elite level of your respective weight class, which one of the following flaws would you prefer to have? 1. Certified Glass Jaw - Journeymen could knock you out with a half assed jab 2. Dreadful stamina - After 4 or 5 rounds you're like an 80yo man with gloves 3. Pathetic feather fists - Malignaggi is Mike Tyson compared to you 4. Defense more porous than a swiss cheese - Simply unable to dodge, parry or block anything with something else than your head 5. Disgraceful punching technique - Calling you a ¨crude brawler with zero fundamentals¨ would be a compliment 6. Fragile glass heart - You're a crybaby who enters into panic mode as soon as somebody grazes you. No pain tolerance either. 7. Slow as syrup - Kimbo Slice would run circles around you Aside from this one flaw, everything about you is excellent. How far do you think you could go in your division?
who the **** chose bad stamina ? feather fists all the way, you can cruise your way to a decision if all you lack is power and are excellent at everything else, plus it wont stop TKO's if your flurrying the guy enough with clear shots.
feather fists would be the best flaw to have. no chin and it won't last long. no stamina will get you hurt any time the fight goes long. no defense will eventually have you face first on ***** street. a disgracefull punching technique can actually be advantagous when fighting against well school and highly tuned fighters. you work with erratic unprededictable grove, while the other guy is streamlined. you have to have heart to compete in a ring, if you don't you'll fold quickly. you can't be slow in the ring, in there speed is power. the power to get your shots off and get out the way. speed is a great asset. look at paulie malinaggi and hector camacho. both speedy and skilled and world class while neither possesed much power. there are fighters that have overcome obvious flaws through the year in every catagorie that you mentioned. kenny lane held the lightweight title with a fragile jaw. Hearns did great yet always seemed to lack top level stamina, what a wrecking machine he was. brett lally fought for the world title while possesing no defense what so ever and he had horrible and a slow technique. but he had a chin and a heart the size of lion and he was world ranked at a time. With the have no heart catagorie, it shouldn't even be a choice. you can't be a fighter if you have no heart. i have seen the way thast fighters are regarded on this forum, shamefull really. so many times fighters are said to have no heart. these statements are generally made by those who could spend a whole life time trying to get enough heart up to do anything similar as to what these fighters endure. any man who steps through to fight, whether it be a well groomed prospect or just johnny paycheck looking for another few hundred bucks, it takes plenty of heart and balls the size of boulders to answer those bells.
i think even slice is much slower than foreman and even then, it says slice would run circles around you
op has exaggerated each of those flaws to the point where they are potentially career ending I'd go with feather fists. Look at all the success Pernell Whitaker had
glass heart because you will be winning easy and when the going gets tough you quit before you take any punishment and don't stick around. that was my problems in the amateurs - win easy when the cards are stacked right, lose easy and fold when the cards are stacked against you.
Probably pathetic punching technique. Calzaghe, Mayorga, and other guys have shown you don't have to throw punches correctly to be a world champion.
