10 punch flurries that would bamboozle there opponent and still be scored as scoring punches even if they lacked power they made up with blistering speed! Sugar ray Leonard would be my first choice!
Leonard had fair power. If you want a featherfisted fighter, who used punches thrown to win fights, then I would start with Zack Padilla. His fights broke punchstat records time and time again. It was a shame his career finished so soon.
Leonard hardly ever threw featherfisted massive combinations. I'd say meldrick Taylor is the best pick here.Or someone like Gil Turner.
Leonard was a very good puncher when his hands were not injured ... as an amateur he was known as a Joe Frazier style puncher till he shifted his game due to injury .. Floyd Patterson threw blazing combinations .. Ali of course and often did not do much damage .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfQ56hSXGV0 (go to 8:05 mark)
I remember that. In the Leonard Hagler fight I was like how are the judges scoring Leonard's punching as effective punches? It was like splashing water on Hagler's face. He was totally unfazed. Meanwhile Hagler was wearing Leonard down with his punches.
I don't remember that. He stopped moving forward to block. Typically that's what fighters do when the other fighter starts throwing a lot of punches. Get out of the way or block. Or just stand there and eat it. And why not just eat it if it doesn't hurt. People sometimes forget that at it's core boxing is about hurting the other man. Yes it's the sweet science, yes it's a technical sport. But at the end of the day we throw punches to hurt not look good. After every flurry Hagler came straight forward and either missed with his own punches or landed the harder more effective punches. I still maintain that all Leonard did was splash water in Hagler's face.
The problem with my beloved Floyd is that he unleashed those rapid combinations so seldom. Always seemed to hold back. In a profession where the objective is to beat your opponent to a pulp and he so often didn't pull the trigger. With just a bit more aggression, he could have been 59-5 not 55-8-1. 2 Liston defeats, 2 Ali defeats, and an INGO which be brutally avenged twice. The first Quarry comes to mind after getting himself into a huge hole after two rounds (anyone wanna still say he was a 'fold-up chair after taking a brutal shot?) In the 3rd and 4th he had a couple of 8-12 punch combos that had Jerry wobbled and, of course didn't follow up. Many other great flurriers.
