The Myth Of Corrie Sanders

People either forget, or simply dont know, prior to beating Wlad, Sanders best win was Michael Sprott and Bobby Czyz the commentator.

 

exactly. Lewis vs Sanders was never in talks at all, had Sanders beat Rahman things mat have been different.

 

Sanders probably went from being underrated, or overlooked, before Wlad to being overrated, very overrated, after it. At least very overrated on boxing forums, and by a pretty good number of people.

The way some people talk about Sanders, you'd think he was Charley Burley or Archie Moore or something, beating contenders left and right and not getting the big fight.

He had ZERO wins against any contenders of note, and the one time he stepped up the opposition against another contender, he LOST. He eventually caught lightning in a bottle against Wlad.

 

That guy is one of the biggest morons on this forum. He just makes things up and spits them out.

 

explain what? corrie was trying to stop vits the only way he knew how, by bombing him out. it failed due to vits good chin, though the 38 year old retiree neverman came close to stopping vits true.. and corrie LOST badly in half time.

lewis threw some bombs at vits but being a laid back semi-retired Jamaican peacenlove man by then, he decided prime vitali could be beaten in an easier, less painful way and in fewer rounds than bombing out his good chin, and instead tore his face off...and Lewis stopped prime vits with half a fight to spare.

 

Sanders had been chasing Lewis for a fight for years, actually. But Lewis had tactfully avoided making that fight voluntarily. As related by Sanders in an interview:

"A fight Sanders pursued for many years which never came off was against Lennox Lewis. “I always wanted to get Lewis in the ring. I knew I had the beating of him. When I fought [Vitali] Klitschko, Lewis chatted a lot with me and he admitted that they avoided me and were concerned about fighting me. I appreciated that he was prepared to admit it to me personally. It meant that I must have meant something.”"

www.thesweetscience.com/columnists/joe-rein/3093-one-on-one-with-corrie-sanders

If Corrie said that Lewis said this then I believe him. Sanders was as honest a boxer as one could find. Possibly Lewis' aversion to fighting Corrie stems from their common opponent, Levi Billups. Billups had a competitive fight with Lewis, whereas Sanders pretty much destroyed Billups with a wicked right uppercut and a cannonball straight left. Not saying that Lewis was in any way scared of Sanders ... but Sanders has always been a high-risk, low reward kind of fighter, which could explain things.

On the other hand, Corrie also has himself to blame, because if he had beaten Rahman, he would have been in line for a shot. Apparently he'd had a real stinker of a training camp, for that one, which could possibly explain why he gassed so badly.

I think people see Sanders as a wild puncher, but he actually wasn't. He relied heavily on counterpunching and timing his opponents with his straight left, which is why often you hear commenters say things like "didn't look that great a punch" when he had the opponent reeling. It was the fact that he often used his speed to catch his opponents leaning into the blow that made his straight left such a torpedo.

If he'd had more motivation and better opportunities, earlier, I believe that he would have been counted as one of the top guys of his era.

 

Why are you so harsh on Corrie Sanders ??? He's a good Heavyweight With good hanspeed & crushing power it's just that he didn't achieve that much

 

Now, why would you go and listen to professional boxers who shared the ring with the man instead of listening to these internet forum experts?

 

Saunders had an excellent skill set that he never truly developed. He seemed a bit lazy in that regard, but also apparently liked his golf better than his boxing.