The Grandmaster of Feints?

Duran certainly did plenty of it with Palomino, and in Montreal. Falsifying distress is risky though, in an era where skittish and paranoid referees are quick to administer standing eight counts and stoppages.

 

Roberto Duran, in his bout with Carlos Palomino and #1 with Leonard sue looked like a grand master of feinting to me. He intimidated and tied up poor Palomino quite impressively.

 

jersey joe walcott was the king

 

:huh

 

This I agree with:deal

 

Walcott was amazing at feints !!

 

pep in his prime was incredible at feinting, best I ever saw.

 

The two people who mentioned Ottke are ****ing nuts (or joking I hope). Ottke was junk. Not nearly as bad as many in the American press have made out but he was still pretty ****ing bad. He wasnt smooth at all with that herky jerky style of his and certainly not the smoothest boxer since pea, hell he wasnt even the smoothest boxer during his time much less pea (who dont even rate that highly).

 

Who was talking about him beeing smooth. Addie was sarcastic. I was not. Ottke feinted his right more than he threw it, especially in the second parts of his fights. That´s the point of the thread, isn´t it?

 

You have doubts about the subtle feinting ability of a Roy Jones, Jr., Sugar Ray Leonard, & Muhammad Ali?

These guys were quintessential cobras (not Frochettes who call themselves cobras because they like the name) .. lesser athletes would see one thing .. caught by the subtle shift, flex, mis-directional look, or non-look, etc., and get caught mesmerized as a fully committed hard punch came without warning.

You kidding me?

 

could there be a chance that their are very good masters of feinting that we dident catch? some feinting im guessing could be very small obscure moves that only the opponents may see.

i remember watching the replay of the round highlights between rounds and not catching certain feints until they where in slow motion or zoomed in.

 

Walcott and Moore

 

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"I only saw this great fighter when he was past his prime but I do believe he would outbox him"*

Ray Arcel Boxing Illustrated 1984

* Him being Marvin Hagler.

 

so many great feinters, i'd have to go pep and hopkins just cause they came to mind first.