The best combination punchers of all time?

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  1. Addie

    Addie Myung Woo Yuh! Full Member

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    Let's compile a definitive list of the most effective combination punchers throughout history. Who was scarily accurate with their punch placement? Who had blindingly fast hands which allowed them to throw 4-5 punch combination's effortlessly? Who's combination's were less flashy, but more often than not resulted in a knockout? Consider punch placement, variety, power, and hand speed.

    Wilfredo Gomez
    Sugar Ray Robinson
    Julio Cesar Chavez
    Orlando Canizales
    Ricardo Lopez
    Juan Manuel Marquez
    Alexis Arguello
    Marco Antonio Barrera

    Who's combination punching really impresses you? Produce some video footage, and outline at what point you're particularly impressed with. I'll start us off.

    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Qq7yyBoCg&feature=related[/ame]
    4.00 - Seabrooks is stopped in their second outting
     
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  2. Xplosive

    Xplosive Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Robinson, Tyson, Norris.
     
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  3. KTFO

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    M.Ali, RJJ, Pernell Whitaker
     
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  4. john garfield

    john garfield Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    SRR, 'n everyone else a distant second.
     
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  5. Manassa

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    Second place to... Ike Williams?
     
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  6. john garfield

    john garfield Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Agree, M
     
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  7. Manassa

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    :D

    The man in my avatar could throw together some surprisingly sharp and unexpected combinations when he felt like it. JG - did you ever meet Jimmy Carter, or see him fight?
     
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  8. Addie

    Addie Myung Woo Yuh! Full Member

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    Not to sure about that. I listed him because he's certainly up there, but nothing I've seen on film would make him an overwhelming favorite...in fact, I consider Julio Cesar Chavez the greatest combination puncher to body and head of all time. Care to elaborate as to why you make a distant first?
     
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  9. john garfield

    john garfield Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Without handcuffs, JC was a helluva fighter -- very solid -- a coiled spring with a deadly left hook. Saw him near-decapitate Tommy Collins (who had more balls than brains) 9 times in a few rounds in Boston, and because he was a home-town kid, the ref was slow to call a halt, and almost got him killed.
     
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  10. john garfield

    john garfield Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    It's a well intentioned question, A. Don't mean to be snide, but like J.C. Morgan said when some one asked how much his yacht cost: 'If you have to ask, you can't afford it'

    Seen' em all (most live 'n in the gym) since the early '40s, never seen the like of Sugar's lethal, electrifying fusillades (not shoe shines).
     
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  11. PunchOut

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    JC ... best combination puncher to the head and body

    then ...

    SRR the great ...
    Ike

    JMM and Barreta ...
     
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  12. Addie

    Addie Myung Woo Yuh! Full Member

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    I believe there to be a genuine dispute regarding who's the greatest combination puncher of all time, it isn't a one horse race. Nobody I listed was a shoe shiner, otherwise I'd have listed Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao.
     
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  13. john garfield

    john garfield Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Addie, I can tell you first hand, in the gym and at ringside, Pac's combos are NOT cream puffs. They look like arm punches but affect like Tasers.
     
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  14. Addie

    Addie Myung Woo Yuh! Full Member

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    He doesn't really throw combination's as much as he flurries to be honest, two entirely different things. I wouldn't rank him very high in terms of combination punching...power and speed is a different kettle of fish, though.
     
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  15. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    I guess my top 2 would be Robinson and Louis.
     
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