Just spent 2 hours watching Ray Robinson and...

Shut the **** up NOOOOB!!!!!

 

God is this another pointless thread? Robinsons legacy is not to be taken the **** out of,come on.

 

wow, there is such a thing as frame! and that reach is fingertip to fingertip, he could just have really long fingers! I am 5'8'', with a 69.5 wingspan, so yes, Floyd does have a long reach, but his frame is small. There is a big difference between a Tua and a Floyd, and when I met Floyd and looked him in the eye he didn't look any bigger than me right before the Gatti fight when I talked to him, maybe just wider in the hips, and I was 128 lbs, used to fight at 118 to 126 amatuers. In no way shape or form could I fight at 175 without getting KTFO, and Floyd is not big or tall at all. 154 is a stretch for his frame, he's doesn't have a sturdy skeletal structure like Berto, etc who probably should not be at 140.

Sure he could beat some crap 175 fighters with much his better skills but he is no where near tall enough or frame wise suited to that weight, especially at a world class level.

 

Robinson has a great jab. If he uses it he should be able to pick Mayweather apart with it when Mayweather becomes more agrressive in the mid to late rounds. However if Robinson has a in ring weakness it is that he tends to abandon his jab for power punches. As he dose in the video above. Once he stops to use his jab he loses what ever size advantage that he has. Mayweather is not going to stand infront of Robinson to let him get off a fulery of punches like Robinson gets off on Agnott at 1:36.

 

Other than Kid Gavilan and Henry Armstrong. Mayweather's resume is just as good at 147.

 

Emanuel Steward is probably going to enter the Hall of Fame as a trainer of champions. You are...who?

Also, you've spent a lifetime viewing boxing and are just now getting around to your first two hours' glimpse of SRR? I call bull****. Your join date is 2010, and that's exactly when you started following the sport.

 

no, that is pure bull****. mayweather's ww competition is hatton out of his best weight, zab ****ing judah, JMM who had never fought anywhere near 47, and old man mosley? Come on now. All of these guys are either out of their prime weight or age

robinson had these guys under his belt before he even reached any championship: Angott, Servo, Zivic, LaMotta, an extremely faded Armstrong... let alone the guys he would fight while holding the ww title. i hope i'm actually not reading that right because there is an ocean between Robinson's WW comp and Floyd's.

 

Forget about who is the greater boxer (Robinson). Forget about who is stronger (Robinson). Forget about who is more clever (Mayweather). Forget about who has better offense (Robinson). Forget about who has better defense (Mayweather). Forget about any advanage that one guy has over the other.
This fight comes down to one thing in my opinion and one thing only.
How much dose Robinson use his jab. If he uses his jab as his main punch. Leads with it uses it to set things up. Than there is not much Mayweather can do. However if he leads with power punches which he has a tendency to do. Mayweather will be able to see them and counter them. He will get in and out with short combos.
I don't always with the saying "styles makes fights." This time I do agree with it.

 

it took me ten min on youtube to see that robinson was the g.o.a.t. your a cornball

 

The person who started this thread needs serious help.

 

I don't think you can watch SRR and not find Turpin, LaMotta, Gavilan, Angott, Armstrong,Fulmer, or Basilio good boxers. They're in the HoF for a reason. The funny thing is you're seeing him get hit a lot... there's a reason for that, the level of competition was a great deal higher than it is now. People signed fights against their biggest rivals several times in a year, not 5 months of negotiation, a 12 round glorified sparring match, and then no rematch. These guys were constantly practicing their craft and had the subtleties down. Why do you think a guy like Hopkins can continue to be competitive at his age? Because he knows his trade better than anyone else out there and scores despite running into physically stronger, faster, more talented comp. These guys have more experience from more fights. The more you do something(big surprise) the better you are at it!

Jimi Hendrix is not the greatest guitar player ever. Segovia, Bream, Tansman, Ponce, Zappa, Fripp, and hundreds of others coming before him in the heyday of classical/romantic/baroque period had arguably greater technical skill and versatility at this instrument. Your analogy blows.

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http://coxscorner.tripod.com/myth.html

 

You really should consider following another sport.

 

:rofl
But seriously, you can't say that SRR wouldn't completely wipe out most of today's welterweights.

Someone once said there was a comparison between Sugar Ray Leonard and Sugar Ray Robinson. Believe me, there's no comparison. Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest.
—Sugar Ray Leonard