Knocking out Prime LaMotta?

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  1. la-califa

    la-califa Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Which Middleweights in Boxing history would, if any. Has a ligitimate chance of either knocking down or out Jake LaMotta?
     
  2. cotto20

    cotto20 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Gerald mccellan, rocky graziano and stanley ketchel would all have a great chance, maybe nigel benn aswel
     
  3. the cobra

    the cobra Awesomeizationism! Full Member

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    Wouldn't expect any to do it.
     
  4. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Fitzsimmons would KO him if he landed right, which I suspect he would. Whatever you think about the translation of fighters through the ages, LaMotta has a style that is vulnerable to that super-puncher's blows.
     
  5. Sweet Pea

    Sweet Pea Obsessed with Boxing banned

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    No.:good
     
  6. Russell

    Russell Loyal Member Full Member

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    No one's consistently knocking him out but a boiled down 190 pound CW like McClellan would have a bit of a chance.

    Seeing how badly Briscoe hurt Monzon twice, I'd give him a slight chance if they fought a bunch of times.

    Eugene Hart, who Hagler pegged as hitting harder then Hearn's and Briscoe, and Mugabi.
     
  7. mrbassie

    mrbassie Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Are they allowed to bring a hammer?
     
  8. PowerPuncher

    PowerPuncher Loyal Member Full Member

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    McClellan, Benn, Jones Jr, Ray Robinson (did if first time he weighed over 154 F*ck the excuses), Hopkins, Hagler, Burley, Charles, Moore, Hearns, Monzon all have varying enough chances of stopping him
     
  9. teeto

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    I still don't think he would, if you mean just a clean ko if he lands right once. I don't think he might do it through a whole bout in general to be honest. I think Jake LaMotta had the best chin ever, if there is such a thing, no i'll say this, he is amongst the candidates for such a ridiculous bauble, but justifiably
     
  10. Russell

    Russell Loyal Member Full Member

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    That's a bit generous.

    Benn failed to knock out several fighters with great chins. Benn's best stuff can be argued to be at 168 and even up there he failed to dent plenty of chins.

    Thulani Malinga 2x, Steve Collins 2x, Juan Carlos Gimenez Ferreyra (Who was 34) Eubank 2x, Sanderline Williams, and Henry Wharton all had known iron chins. Benn didn't close the show on any of them.

    The decent chins like Barkley and DeWitt that Benn did put away all had wide open defenses and were easy to tag. Those were the guys Benn was a destroyer against.

    He was a lot like Kelly Pavlik in that regard.
     
  11. la-califa

    la-califa Boxing Addict Full Member

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    All good fighters & could possibly stop him like Robinson on a TKO. But the trick is, could any of them get Jake off of his feet? Inwhich is something even a great puncher like Robinson failed to do.
     
  12. teeto

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    I don't favour any man to do it personally
     
  13. Sweet Pea

    Sweet Pea Obsessed with Boxing banned

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    I'm with Teeto. PowerPuncher is just making an ass of himself, as has become customary.
     
  14. SuzieQ49

    SuzieQ49 The Manager Full Member

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    Its ok. Powerpuncher underrates Lamottas chin. Lamotta took on the biggest hardest 160-175lb punchers of his era and not one of them could take him off his feet until at the very end of his career......Personally at 160lb....I dont see any fighter in history flooring jake lamotta let alone knocking him out. he had the best chin of all time.
     
  15. Robbi

    Robbi Marvelous Full Member

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    Out of everyone he listed, Hopkins has the least chance of knocking him out. And why he even listed Hopkins i'm not too sure. His power at middleweight was above average at best. A decet puncher, thats it. And it would take more than just one of them to knock down LaMotta.