The best example of range-control in boxing? Video. Lopez KO2 Lin

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  1. Sweet Pea

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    I thought he looked better against Corley aside from the part where he got rocked. I wasn't impressed with me in the Hatton fight aside from the KO.

    No way in hell he beats the greats up to Flyweight, just no way. We saw how he stuggled with a guy who made his living at 105-108 in terms of strength.
     
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    :happy
     
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  3. McGrain

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    Read your own words again.

    You've got past-prime Lopez winning against a stronger bigger man in a step up.

    That's a shortlist for failure, and he succeeded.
     
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    You're lucky to be posting this type of emoticon pish in General, i'd spank your little bottom blue if we were in Classic.
     
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    i always post lopez's ko of preecha as my favorite. It's just so ****ing beautiful. Left, right, uppercut. Imagine if that follow up left hook landed as well?
     
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  6. Sweet Pea

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    The point was that he struggled a lot with the first truly good fighter he ever fought. Against bigger, better opposition and more styles to contend with, how would it have turned out?
     
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  7. McGrain

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    Absolutley right. The frightening thing is that the left hook is the most perfect punch he throws.

    The fourth punch in the combination is the most perfect one he throws.



    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=[yt]tWSEeLpVxCY[/yt]
     
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  8. McGrain

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    Your rhetorical question is impossible to answer.

    MY point is that tenfold fighters have failed in these circumstances, and it is irrefutable.
     
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  9. Sweet Pea

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    Yeah, but not most great ones, not against that type of opposition with that small a step up.
     
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  10. McGrain

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    And get your arse back to #40 if you want to talk to me.
     
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  11. Sweet Pea

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    You conceded your drunkenness in that post. No need.
     
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  12. McGrain

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    Your point is he won in a small step up past prime and that is supposed to mean what to me?

    I mean, I can see arguments eminating from prime Tyson struggling (in certain ways) to impose himself upon Smith, but this? This win? Back up a step, this is a good win in trying circumstances.
     
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  13. McGrain

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    You speaking to the drunken master.

    90% of the threads i've battered Amsterdam out of have been drunken master threads.

    Aside from that, everything I say in that post is accurate, as you well know.
     
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  14. Sweet Pea

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    It is, but it's also the ONLY really good fighter he'd faced up until that point, and if he was supposed to be as truly out of the opposition's league as you say he was, he should've dealt with him in much more impressive fashion if we're talking about comparing him to Jones, even if he was past his best by that point.
     
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  15. Sweet Pea

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    Except for the point about Lopez's inside skills. I don't see anything that puts him in the category with any of the best. Sanchez was better in that regard, more versatile and comfortable in close under fire. Arbachakov as well IMO.
     
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