The best combination punchers of all time?

I dont understand what you are trying to say.

 

Check back a few posts.

 

Still not with you Popkins. You will have to explain.

 

1 Ray Robinson - Blows me away with is combos fast left hooks right hands, right uppercuts everything. His left hook was the bread and butter of the combo doubling tripling it up.

2. Joe Louis - Just brutal combinations that were all hurtful from range or in close

3. Ike Williams - Aint seen much of him but what i have seen is reminiscent of Louis.

4. Ray Leonard - The welterweight ray Leonard was a brilliant combination puncher and some of the stuff he threw was great. Like RObisnon a left hook punctuated it although he through his look at a different angle.

5. Jose Napoles - He had that 1950s smooth Cuban style the subtle head movemnt then exploding into a counter combination his hooks to the body and head were lethal and then like all cubans of teh tiem he had that uppercut/bolo shots.

HMs: Wilfredo Gomez, Kid Gavilan, Carlos Ortiz, Fighting Harada, Ruben Olivares, Eder Jofre, Pascual Perez, Yoko Gushiken

 

You obviously didn't check back. Basically I am being rude about Terry Norris. I don't think his name should be mentioned on a thread for the best combination puncher of all-time. Now if it had just been you who brought him up, I wouldn't have said a word, everyone being entitled to their own opinion and all that, but my intervention was already made (a few posts back) to that guy who first brought up Norris. I don't know the guy or anything, but he seems to throw Norris's hat into the ring for every thread going. It irritates me. One of my favourite fighters is Manny Pacquiao, but if a poll is made asking for the hardest hitter ever or the best defence ever, I'm not going to put him forward as an answer... because he obviously wasn't despite my affection for him. Saying Norris on this thread is unjustifiable IMO, of course he wasn't the best combination puncher ever, nor even remotely close to it. As I said, I was reacting to that other guy though, not you.

 

I'm nearly 100% certain that Duran in his lightweight and early welter days displayed better combination punching than I've ever seen Chavez, Barrera, Marquez, Lopez or Canizales show. Those men at their best were all masters of fundamental combo punching technique, but they didn't have the subtlety, innovation or intuition that Duran displayed, and again much better opposition at that.

 

There is an amazing Duran highlights vid on youtube, I have to go to work now but I'll send you the link later tonight.

I don't really have much of an opinion on Canizales mate. I've saw him fight Billy Hardy, and a couple of highlights vids. I think he's a solid, tidy, effective boxer, but his resume is very thin, and you could make the argument he lost to the best fighters he faced. I can appreciate why you are a fan, but his is not a career set I'd be rushing to purchase. JMHO mate.

 

in my HM missed out Duran and Cesaer Chavez

 

Good stuff chappie, those first 5 are hard to argue with. Perez and Gushiken never occurred to me. Chang and Zapata both threw classy combinations as well, though with differing styles.

 

You can laugh all you like but he dusted Mugabi down with ease, Mugabi gave Hagler all he could handle, he also beat fighters like Meldrick Taylor who was not finished he was just fighting a bigger stronger man at a higher weight, Norris was not even a big 154 pound anyway.

Norris also beat Castro comfortably, Castro knocked out J D Jacson and beat Reggie Johnson. The same Johnson that beat Steve Collins in a war years before he beat Eubank & Benn 2x.

He also beat Blocker whom beat [url]Starling who had knocked Breland out and schooled Honeygham and gave Nunn all he could handle at 160.[/url]

He has solid if not spectacular wins against faded fighters like Curry, Leonard.

He also avanged his loss to Simon Brown.

Nothing laughable about Norris's record, he fought some past prime fighters but he also had some solid wins.