An immensely talented fighter with mule-kick power, a southpaw stance, and some of the fastest hands I've seen usually reduced to mediocrity because he preferred golf to training, the man was a true champion at being a father, as he sacrificed his own life shielding his daughter in a robbery. Sanders had used his body to shield his daughter from oncoming bullets and then, while bleeding from bullet wounds in his right arm and stomach, pulled her to the ground and whispered for her to pretend to be dead.Sanders was taken to a hospital in Pretoria, where he died in the early hours of 23 September 2012 of his wounds. Rest in peace, champ! I hope I am a tenth the dad you were. This content is protected
''Corrie Sanders is easily the hardest puncher I've fought'' “Man, he could punch,” Sprott recalled. “He was definitely the hardest puncher I’ve faced. I don’t know where he got that power from. As soon as he hit me, I said to myself, ‘I’m in trouble here’.” “The punches didn’t even land on my jaw. If they had, I’d have been asleep for days.” --Michael Sprott ''Sanders probably had the fastest hands I'd ever seen'' --Al Cole ''Corrie Sanders was the most rounded fighter I’ve ever got in the ring with; the most skilled. You go to throw a jab, he slips and throws a southpaw left hand and you think, ‘Where the hell did that come from?’ Because I was fast and a defensive fighter, I didn’t really get hurt. He was hard to pin down as a heavyweight. ''Overall Sanders was very good. He was fast and he was sharp. Remember, I got in there with a heavyweight who was up-and-coming. You didn’t appreciate how fast he was for a heavyweight until you were there in front of him. He looked so easy to hit and that’s the mistake [Wladimir] Klitschko made. -- Johnny Nelson Bobby Czyz: Best I've Faced BEST OVERALL Technically, the best fighter I fought was Corrie Sanders. He was a big man, 6-foot-4, 240 pounds who had speed like a lightweight. It was unbelievable how fast he was. You couldn’t get away from, no matter where you walked, and he threw a lot of punches. ''He was very fast and he had really powerful hands. I’ve been in boxing for 25 years and I never fought anybody in this game that punched like Corrie Sanders.'' --Wladimir Klitschko “Corrie Sanders was my most difficult opponent I ever fought. Corrie was fast, could give and take a punch. His style was dangerous and did not suit me. I was very pleased to be able to win this fight.” -- Vitali Klitschko ''I've never been hit like that in my life'' --Hasim Rahman Al Cole Best I've Faced BEST HANDSPEED Corrie Sanders: He had handspeed like Roy Jones Jr. With Corrie, I didn’t get to see his shots coming. BEST PUNCHER Sanders: One of the hardest hitters was Nate Miller. Sultan Ibragimov was a big puncher but I would say Corrie Sanders. I was stopped four times but he was the only one I was hurt by. I was dazed by Corrie Sanders. He hit me, I went down, got back up but when Corrie came in trying to finish me off his handspeed was everywhere. BEST OVERALL Sanders: I think Corrie was a heavyweight but he had handspeed like Roy Jones. He put Rahman down a few times and knocked out Wladimir Klitschko. Nobody else did what he did to me.' LHWs and CWs praising Corrie's hand speed
Of coarse i remember him as a tremendous fighter but my admiration goes through the roof thinking about how he sacrificed himself for his daughter. A truly great man
If a few of the notable fighters today had the same warrior attitude that Corrie did, then there'd be no issues with "runners" or horrendous cards like we witnessed at Times Square.
