Panama Al Brown vs. Ruben Olivares

Brown takes a UD over 15. In 167 fights contested until he was 40 years old, nobody was able to stop Panama Al. Ruben would have to outscore him to win. As great as Olivares was at his best, I believe this is too much to ask of him.

 

I have a feeling that despite these two are both big punchers this is going to be quite a tactical boxing match.

Olivares is going to know he can't wade in as Brown will punish him with those hard uppercuts he delighted in, and Brown knows he can't take his usual show-boating tactics with Olivares who was fast and hit hard.

I see Olivares trying to set traps early but with Brown using his superior reach and overall speed to keep ahead. Olivares will then try to get inside behind the jab and bang the body and has some sucess with that but he will be getting countered by Brown, but Brown will be taking some hellacious body shots IMO.

I reckon Brown could probably hold on for the decision but the body work, purely due to his frame, might knock him out.

 

I'd favor Brown. An ATG chin and world class power.

Olivares seemed to struggle in fights that went into the later rounds, being decked in several of them.

Stopped on a cut in 14 against Castillo.

Decked in the 6th against Castillo in their final match. Knocked down in the 2nd against him the first time around.

He had to get off the mat to take a SD against Art Hafey as well. :think

 

Although when Olivares was on fire, he was on fire.

I think he was very inconsistent at times but when he was faced with his biggest challenges he tended to perform to th best of hsi ability particulary early in his career with his destructions of Rose, Rudkin and Pimental. But at featherweight he was very patchy but still turned in superb performances vs Chacon twice and ,although losing, Arguello also.

 

I agree.

I forget what trainer it was, but he said Olivares was maybe the most impressive fighter he ever saw him person when he was "on".

 

Yep.

And that 'on' Olivares combined technical skills, a solid boxing mind, savage intensity and a monster punch. Definitly a packaged to be reckoned with.

 

I really don't see Brown as a big puncher at all, but i agree he could well win the decision. Great durability.

 

I dont think hes a big puncher in terms of his actual punching power. But his speed, accuracy and ability to bring opponents onto his punches, make him a very sharp and damaging puncher IMO.

 

If your talking about Olivares-Brown you've got to be talking aboiut Olivares at his peak at bantam and I for one can't back anyone against him. Just watched Zamora-Zarate again and I can't help but think that prime Olivares would of put even Zarate away in that type of fight.

 

Although saying that Brown trading could be a good thing for Olivares who is used to a showdown whereas Brown, from what I have seen, is much more comfortable in a more cerebral kind of fight. And Brown would lose some sting in his shots when he takes the offence IMO, he seems to me as a back foot puncher.

 

At his peak and throughout his career for that matter Olivares was a master of range who could box when he had to. Look at the Arguello fight up at feather when past his best.

 

He could hit:

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