Is Joseph Parker too evolved for the 1970s ?

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  1. Journeyman92

    Journeyman92 Barrios is a bandit robber - Psalm 144:1 Full Member

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    So off the back foot where we’ve got Norton against Del Boy you’ve got… Shot Quarry, Foreman, Shavers and Cooney… yikes, feel bad for Norton if he’d fought DC.
     
  2. dmt

    dmt Hardest hitting hw ever Full Member

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    His chin was more than enough to withstand everything Ali and Holmes threw at him. His chin was actually decent and could only be cracked by massive punchers in his prime, which Chisora is not. Chisora couldn't stop Whyte for christ's sakes. Norton outboxes and stops Chisora.
     
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  3. Journeyman92

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    It can only be cracked by massive punchers… and a 188lbs Garcia? - your chin doesn’t get better, stop reaching it’s just how it is, you inly need to have a punch as hard as a 188lbs man to STOP Norton, that’s a fact.
     
  4. dmt

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    That's an absurd argument.

    Ali was floored by 185 lb Cooper and yet took clean shots of a hard hitting 215 lb Shavers and never went down.

    David Haye was stopped by Carl Thompson, a cruiserweight who was 40 lbs lighter than Chisora. Using that logic, Chisora should have stopped Haye and cracked his chin but that didn't happen.

    I am not reaching at all. The fact that you continue to repeat the same claim over and over again and claim that Norton is a B level guy or Frazier would fight at 175 lbs today shows a lack of boxing knowledge.
     
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  5. Journeyman92

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    Buddy Norton was stopped outright by a 188lbs fighter why are you fighting that? His chin wasn’t good for his size… Ali was dropped and hurt by a shot he didn’t see, it’s not an issue, he wasn’t stopped though but it does show yes Ali can be hurt by a guy that size yes, that’s how smaller guys TYPICALLY hurt big guys it’s with shots they don’t see coming... Your chin doesn’t get better YOUR EYES DO your awareness, that’s why Ali became seemingly more durable same story with Foreman. “Lack of boxing knowledge” according to who? Forum nerds like us? Ask the resident coaches here if I know anything, I don’t think they’d call me a dummy illiterate, impatient and not bright YES dummy? Eh doubt it, just your average poster… I’ve actually had quite a few guys tell me here I know a bit and I take there educated opinions over yours or any other person trying to brow beat people over fantasy boxing lol.

    EDIT: Let’s just agree to disagree no biggie right?
     
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  6. MarkusFlorez99

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    Why ? It's just Chisora, he lost 12 times and couldn't even KO Whyte
     
  7. PrimoGT

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    A young Chisora might be able to run an old Norton close, like Tex Cobb did. But prime for prime, Norton would beat him one-sidedly.
     
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  8. Journeyman92

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    Young lost 1/3 of the time he got in the ring and beat the F out GF… styles make fights sir.
     
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  9. MarkusFlorez99

    MarkusFlorez99 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Ehh he improved a lot after his early losses because he took up boxing late, lost to Shavers the first time, then drew with him the second. Beat Lyle, then gave Ali problems. He was a top contender in his prime. Half his losses came in the 80s
     
  10. Journeyman92

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    Agreed but he’d also lose to War Boy Chisora.
     
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