Pernall Whitaker GIF'S

I am speechless - even after watching these fights a number of times since the occured. There will never be another Pernell Whitaker.

 

I remember watching De la hoya vs Whitaker...De La Hoya tried to steal the rounds with late flurries and hit nothing but air. The man was gifted.

 

Yeah, Lampley always gets excited with flurries at the end of rounds - even when they are clearly ineffective.

 

Mayweather is phenominal as well - one of elite defensive fighters in fistic history. But slightly behind Sweet Pea.

 

The oscarsexuals were in full force that night. Pathetic scoring. 116-110 from memory. It was a close fight but that was just appalling.
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That defense was his down fall in his biggest fights. The judges were impressed with his defense but no so much his offense.

 

Whitaker had the power to get Chavez, Ramirez, Nelson, and Vasquez's respect. His punch output was amazing at lightweight and it wasn't half bad at welterweight. His jab is perhaps the best I've ever seen and he could put combinations together as well as almost anybody.

Whitaker was also phenominally accurate. Even off of the backfoot, he was very effective.

To say Whitaker's offense hurt him is downright stupid.

 

I like Whitaker alot, and I agree he had great offense more than he is given credut for, he like to stay in the pocket and break a boxer down, Whitaker was awesome, but sometimes he had more defense than offense which cost him the De La Hoya fight for example.

 

He made a fool of himself in the process. Here you have Whitaker who many felt was shafted in some big fights. ODLH boxing's super star young at 23 years of age moves up to fight him in the biggest fight of Whitaker's life, he he has the oppurtunity to Prove and Show what a master he was to the mainstream media yet chooses to fight defensively, act like a clown, I mean over doing it, and does not resort to what effective for him which was fighting in the pocket! He blew it!

As for punchstats, well Whitaker landed weak jabs while moving defensively, while DLH landed power shots!

As for the KD, it was more of their feet getting tangled with each other more than a KD.:good

 

It was a slip/punch knockdown. Some referees would have scored it a slip, just depends on the official. Hagler was knocked down against Roldan with a grazing punch to the top of the head as he was slipping. The referee scored it a knockdown, yet later admitted he was wrong when viewing the replay days later.

And regarding punch stats. They don't score fights. The judges don't use punch stats, and neither do you or myself. And the accuracy of punch stats must come into question.

 

Another thing. The landing at higher percentage means very little. If one fighter throws 20 punches and lands 15 punches he scores a higher percentage than his opponent who throws 50 punches yet only lands 25. It doesn't take a scientist to figure out who wins the round. The later threw more and landed more, yet has a lower percentage.

Im giving the above as an example, not strictly for the De La Hoya-Whitaker punch stats.

 

A myth regarding De La Hoya being the aggressor. Well he was aggressive to an extent, but he certainly never bombed forward throughout the fight. De La Hoya was extremely cautious himself, hence the reason he fired Rivero and hired Steward.

This fight was no robbery in my eyes, far from it. Many close rounds, and many missed punches from either fighter. The rounds were very difficult to score.