Two Steel Middles who Melts?

In the dundee fight in particular Steele got very wild going for the KO and as such probably prolonged the fight longer than it had to be. That being said, power and skill are not mutually exclusive. Steele simply wasnt a guy who went out looking to knock guys dead with every punch. In fact thats a pretty stupid way to fight (as Tyson found out later in his career). He was content to fight a professional, complete fight and take his opportunities as they came or as he created them. The sport has a lot of guys who could knock you dead with a single punch but werent overly aggressive and could also rely on sound boxing skills and as such didnt have to go out there and put their eggs all in one basket. Anyone who doesnt think Steele could punch with the best MWs in history hasnt seen him fight. Beyond that, look at his record and read the accounts of his fights and you will see even when he wasnt knocking guys dead he was able to drop them and hurt them.

 

You know your methodology factors in Freddie turning pro at like the age of freekin twelve years old!

Your methodology blurs the true power of the fighter in his prime and really creates two entirely different fighters!

 

Thats interesting. I dont really pay attention to figures like KO percentages but Langford was easily one of the P4P hardest punchers in history and his KO percentage is the same as Freddies. That pretty much ends that discussion as far as Im concerned.

 

ALL stats are a crock of ****, which sport has been polluted with for 30 years now,

the only thing important in Boxing IS...

- Era's, stronger ones over weaker ones

- Divisions, stronger ones over weaker ones

- Longievity at the TOP


- Number of fights, within the same above factors


- Competition - Win or Lose, how well competed against


- WHO comp was, and what they did

- Fighting UP...

in Boxing you don't need no more - the Mark of GREAT fighters!!!