Impressed by Rigo? Want "Sweet Science" at it's best?(New Canelo question added)

Toney had TONS of ring generalship... he could slip and slide and fight inside most of the time if he felt like it, when he had to.

Fighting your fight is also usually defined as ring generalship, and JT had plenty of it when he worked his way inside (as he usually did)

 

Yeah I maybe shouldn't have said ring generalship, but it definitely comes in different forms and it was harder for judges to get his fights right. He had some close fights because what HE felt was being in control, and thought he was being a ring general but that bit him in the ass in a few fights. When you got a fighter breathing down your neck, laying on your chest, and your slipping and sliding, it doesn't always look as clean as you want it to.

A guy like Rigo controls distance like an absolute master. We're comparing apples and oranges between Toney and Rigo. Not that its a bad thing. But if you think of ring generals, you think of guys like Bernard Hopkins, who dominates the canvas with his legs and sets up traps with that distance not just clever punch placement. Trust me man, I'm the biggest Toney nut hugger of all time. i'm not trying to minimize anything that he does.

 

The footwork really is on another planet, Pity. Not just in terms of his technique, but the sheer explosiveness of his movement and foot speed.

 

Who wouldn't get knocked down standling up straight with their hands down after getting shoved out of a clinch. Any other time Donaire landed, Rigondeaux took it well.

 

Well I won't make a a case for granite chin but think rigo proved he had a solid one.Was hit flush in the clinch but got right back up like nothing,Pretty good for a guy who was 10lbs smaller & was suppose to get his chin shattered.I don't see anybody from 118lb-126 that is a huge threat aside from Garcia,& garcia has huge size advantage.

 

What Sumbu did still ****ing blows my mind.

 

"Impressed by Rigo? Want "Sweet Science" at it's best?"

- Then watch Whittaker - Chavez. (just stop it before the robbery is announced, so your head doesn't explode.)


Toney-McCallum is good, too. :good

 

One of boxing's most epic masterclasses.

 

Rigo was more off balance than hurt, he put his hands out to try to cushion his fall and then jumped straight back up and won the rest of the round. Donaire landed punches and they didn't hurt Rigo. I said before the fight that I'm not sure Doniare punches harder than Marroquin. Same thing with Gamboa against Farenas, Farenas is a very good boxer and puncher and Gamboa is getting underrated big time now. He'd wreck Broner at this point, I'm certain of it.

 

Great fight and my first time watching. Cheers for putting it up!

 

it was a solid performance by Rigo, but his jaw will be the end of him. Once he is unable to move with advancing age, he'll have little to fall back on given his sensitivity to punches.

 

Andre Berto, now merely a gatekeeper:deal

 

James Toney is a lock in on my top 5 off all time


Proper boxer in his prime.