Ismael Laguna

Well, he WAS Mr. Butt!!

 

Driscoll is probably no 1,imo.
Winstone was no slouch either.

 

Winstone's style is more like Ohba or to an extent Harold Johnson, just with no real power at world level.He has more of an orthodox,compact, textbook approach,moves in tight circles\working angles rather than controlling the ring perimeter as much. though doesn't mind mixing it up.

 

What sets Driscoll above Buchanan and Winstone in a h2h sense for me is the one important thing that he seemed to have over both of em: namely, top class power in his right hand.
As for Laguna, his fight with Elorde has always interested me, although I can't seem to find much info on it other than the odd short write-up. Terrific little fighter, was Ismael - at least, from what I've seen of him. And apart from a very small loss in the way of pure speed, I think he looked as good as ever around the time of the first Buchanan fight despite what seems to be the consensus, dishing out the lashings that he did to Ramos here and Suzuki in his following fight. Everybody on here seems to be well enough aware of what a top class fighter Ramos could be on the offensive front when he pulled his finger out, but Laguna is just better than him here with those wick, slicing blows.
Still, him not being the biggest lightweight caught up to him down the stretch a bit against Buchanan in the end. Both of those fights show some brilliant boxing from the both of them.

 

Totally concur,footage of him ,shows him looking to unload it , and ,when he does, bingo!

 

Winstone sparred with Buchanan ,as both were managed by Eddie Thomas.

 

Yep. Any young un in the gym wanting a double lesson on how to jab might've learned a thing or two from watching those two have a friendlyish stab at each other.

 

Incidentally i believe Buchanan has mentioned he thought McGowan was the best technical boxer of the British fighters.

 

who do you prefer between Laguna and Marcel?.

 

Greg, I think I read an online United Press summary that had Laguna winning in the early going before Elorde put him down in the 4th, edged in front after said knockdown made Laguna a bit more cautious and then put a bit of daylight between them after the knockdown in the 9th. Seems to have been that what separated em and justified Elorde getting the nod on home soil as he did. This was yonks ago though, so I'm not sure. If it's an accurate summary then this surely has to rank as outstanding win for Elorde. Tackling him in Manila in front of that lot was probably a bit of an unenviable job.

I'm not sure about Buchanan joining Thomas partly because of Winstone, though it seems like a logical enough factor.

 

ken was definitely getting pissed of with the attention winstone was getting in the thomas gym