School me on Hecter Comacho

thanks!:good

 

He had an alligator mouth and a hummingbird's ass.

 

You know what I mean. When Camacho trained for a fight, he trained hard. Even though he was not a role model for his son due to all the out of the ring activities. Seems like Jr concentrated more on the out of the ring activities then actually training hard for a meaningful fight.

 

Probably the best combination of hand and foot speed there is on film in his younger days. Good pop in his punches, excellent at opening and closing the distance in the blink of an eye, good combination puncher, went to the body pretty well.

The mental strength aspect was interesting. While he had a tendency to shell up when he felt he couldn't hold off the incoming, he was also never stopped in his entire career, so he clearly had a lot of mental fortitude regardless of what methods he went about to remain on his feet. It usually took the bigger, better punchers to put him into that sort of state, anyway.

One of his most notable flaws that's difficult to ignore if you've seen enough of him, even in his prime, was that he didn't have good upper-body/head movement or fundamental defense. His defense mainly relied on his foot speed. He used his lateral movement, closed the distance, blistered the opponent with combinations, and then popped out of range. If he stayed in range for any significant amount of time he was likely to get tagged regardless of the quality of opponent he was up against. Unless he was on the defensive. Aside from that in and out speed he didn't blend the offensive/defensive elements together very well.

At 130-135, he'd be absolute hell for certain stylists, i.e. the more plodding, methodical workers, whereas the better boxer-punchers, swarmers, etc. could've and likely would've exposed these deficiencies. But it wouldn't have been easy for many, if any, at his peak. His speed really was something else, and speed kills.

 

HOF

insane hand speed
defensively supperb
cocaine addict

beat both leonard and duran

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