Take Away A Boxer's Greastest Weapon/Attribute

Prime Sonny Liston maybe....take away Liston's telephone pole left jab.....which would leave the opponent the option to go inside and beat Sonny face to face.

 

Tyson would still be lethel without a uppercut

Joe Louis would still be lethel without his jab

Ali was great when his footwork left him

 

Ray Robinson, well balanced to the point of having to guess what's what.

 

SRL-take away his legs and he changes his name to Neal seriously take away his movement and he looks more like Donald Curry

Shavers-take away his right and he never gets a title shot or into contention

Frazier-his hook was his best weapon and without it he never makes the top ten

 

Ingo, w/o "Toonder", might not even be a top 20 rated fighter in the European Rankings.

 

Fitzsimmons without his power.

He actually seems to have been able to comfortably outboximg the top middleweight, so he would have still had a very good career, but he couldn't have beaten Corbett and became heavyweight champion.

 

Winky Wright’s short torso. Still a tough out with his jab.
Hearns’s right cross. Master boxer when he wanted to be.
Holyfield’s hard head. Nearly unmatched determination to win.

 

subtract Tex Cobb's chin and what do you have?

 

Take away Mayweather’s defense and you’re left with Meldrick Taylor. Not too bad.

 

Tommy Morrison

 

In line with the actual ask Michael Spinks without his devastating right hand would still go very well. He still had big big power in his left hand and showed in his move to heavyweight that he could do extremely well without his monster right hand. At 175 he'd still have his left as well and no size disadvantages.

 

Take away Ingemar Johansson's right hand, and we are probably not talking about him today!

 

Take away Duran's power and you'd have a guy who could still outbox plenty of fighters - or, in other words, Duran was still a great fighter when he moved up from the lightweight division!