Mike's speed in this video is crazy

Mike would have hit harder had those mitts been Floyd's face.

 

Mike was very short so his speed was deceiving.

 

I remember showing this video to some MMA fans and they said the video was sped up.

 

Pads don't hit back like Buster Douglas though, do they?

 

Oh please. He's fighting yet another bum in that video, that unathletic cabdriver doesn't even look like a heavyweight atsch

 

Seek help

 

Last of the great HWs.

 

Maybe your sister can help :yep.

 

You don't see much pad work like that anymore.

Where fighters actually load up on the punches.

 

What a beautiful peak that was.

 

Mike at 5'10'' was far from being an average heavyweight. There are lightweight boxers longer than that. It's just that his enormous, freakish muscle structure that put him in the heavyweights, but the added weight didn't give him any disadvantage as with most heavyweights. With that height, he'd normally compete in MW, SMW or LHW tops, he'd even be too small for cruiserweight.

 

Fellow Trainer to Cus D'Amato when he brought Mike to a "smoker" in the amateurs: "Are you sure you know what you're doing? There's a lot of big scary guys out there."

D'Amato: "My boy's job is to put big scary men in their place."

 

exactly, hell i could look like srl on the pads, every pro boxer will look great doing routine pad work