Pryor would give him issues with his whirlwind activity, but Whitaker had a way of nullifying opponents, and he had a good workrate himself. Pryor would leave enough openings for Whitaker to take advantage of. Pernell takes a 7-5, 8-4 type decision.
Damn that's a tough one to predict. I think it goes twelve rounds and is very difficult to score. Whitaker has lots of success landing clean accurate counters while trying to play the matador, Pryor throws a lot more punches, misses a lot of them, but lands big eye catching flurries fairly regularly. Whitaker will get touched up more than he ever has been but will outbox Pryor throughout. Comes down to if the judges prefer the consistent accurate counters or the less frequent but more powerful eye catching flurries.
Whitaker is all wrong for Pryor. . He boxed to well off his jab and would slip Pryors attack and counter as Pryor is off balance.. and his great D, I like Whitaker close but clear UD, 9 - 6
I know Pryor was a bit past it at this point but look at his fight vs Gary Hinton who was slick Southpaw, Pryor had issues with him and Hinton went full 15 rounds. Now obviously as I stated Pryor wasn't at his peak at this point, but you could still see the stylistic issues Pryor had. Whitaker for me wins a competitive UD.
if both mens feet are glued to the floor sweet would still be live. give him his feet, hard af fight but only 1 winner.
